The Road To Lurgan

jig

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on September 1st 2004 by Aidan Crossey.

This tune has been added to 4 tunebooks.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• The Humours Of Lewisham, Volume Three by Aidan Crossey

X: 1
T: Road To Lurgan, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Gmaj
|:D|G3 B2G|c2A B2G|GBd cAG|~F3 DEF|
GAG B2G|c2A B2G|ded cAF|G3 G2:|
|:c|BAG AFD|DED FED|BAG AFD|~F3 ABc|
BAG AFD|DED FED|BdB cAF|G3 G2:|

The Road To Lurgan

Essentially a 2-part version of "The Maid At The Spinning Wheel" (or the Maid At The Spinning Wheel is a 3- or 4-part version of this tune ... take your pick). One of the few tunes named after the town in whose hinterland I grew up.

A true story ... I was playing this one night and somebody asked me the name. "The Road To Lurgan" I answered. A sour face ... "Jayz. I'd sooner hear the road *out of* thon kip!"

# Posted on September 1st 2004 by Aidan Crossey

"The Maid at the Spinning Wheel" ~ 4-parts

Submitted on August 29th 2003 by dafydd.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/2254

The first two parts of this tune are "The Road to Lurgan", maybe the next two are "The Road out of Lurgan"?

# Posted on December 2nd 2005 by ceolachan