Trip To Skye

waltz

Key signature: Cmajor

Submitted on August 4th 2004 by meetze.

This tune has been added to 54 tunebooks.

Also known as The Trip To Skye.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Celtic Odyssey by Various Artists
• Dance Of The Celts: A Narada Collection by Various Artists
• Fresh Takes by John Whelan And Eileen Ivers
• Just As The Sun Was Setting by John Drury
• Pipeline by Pipeline Dermot Hyde And Tom Hake
• The Celts Rise Again by Various Artists
• The Irish Experience by The Irish Experience
• The World's Room by Old Blind Dogs

X: 1
T: Trip To Skye
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Cmaj
e2 dc BA|Bd GA Bd|c2 Bd cB|c2 A2 A2|
e2 dc BA|Bd GA Bd|c2 Bd cB|AG ED EG:|
|:E2 AB c2|E2 AB cA|Bd GA Bd|cB AG ED|
E2 AB c2|E2 AB cA|Bd GA Bd|1c2 ~B2~A2:|2 cA Bc BA||

Trip to Brittany

Skolvan has a great version of this tune.

# Posted on August 4th 2004 by snorre

This Tune

I figured out why this tune haunted me - it sounds so much like Mr. O'Connor. I found the abc of this tune on the Traditional Music Database. It needs some modification.

# Posted on August 4th 2004 by meetze

I have a recording of John Whelan and Eileen Ivers playing this tune in a set with a reel following it, and on that recording the chords are mainly Am and G. I believe that this is in A dorian instead of C Major. It is a haunting tune, and really lends itself to being followed by a reel (maybe in A dorian as well). Thanks for posting this!

# Posted on August 5th 2004 by violynnsey

I think it needs to be mentioned that this tune was written by John Whelan.

# Posted on August 5th 2004 by Twiz

Skye is a small island off the northwest coast of Scotland, the ancestral home of the Nichol / MacNichol / Nicholson clan until the 14th or 15th century, when the island passed by marriage into the Lewis clan.

# Posted on August 10th 2004 by ceciltguitar

In the Spirit of Helping - Proper Key

This may be nitpicking, but this tune is actually in A minor, rather than C Major.

I only offer this because I'd passed over this tune while searching for it several times because of the stated key signature.

# Posted on August 21st 2005 by TriskellStudio

Original Key

If John Whelan wrote this tune then the original key might be B minor, because that's the key in which he recorded it.

# Posted on July 23rd 2006 by Beheader