Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on November 23rd 2004 by Kenny.
This tune has been added to 18 tunebooks.
Also known as Feeding The Birds, McSweeney's Reels, Sweeney's Favourite.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: McSweeney's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
DGGA B2 AG | Adfd cAFA | GFGA B2 AG | AdcA BG G2 :|
gbag fdde | fdge fddg | gfdg fdcA | dgfa g2 ga |
bgaf gfde | =fefd cAFA | G3 A B2 AG | Adfd cAFA |
McSweeney's
Don't know anything about McSweeney, I'm afraid. From "Altan's" "Horse With A Heart" recording, so presumably a Donegal fiddle tune.
# Posted on November 23rd 2004 by Kenny
It's a major version of Ed Reavy's "Glen Reel", is it not?
# Posted on November 23rd 2004 by Dow
Incidentally, I think Reavy must have been influenced by The Pretty Girls Of Mayo http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1954. The tunes are too similar for it to be a coincidence, especially this major version. In fact, if the 2 tunes had the same name, I'm sure people would just class them as different settings of the same tune, but since a well-respected composer has supposedly "composed" it, it'll be a different story.
# Posted on November 23rd 2004 by Dow
We all make mistakes...
# Posted on November 23rd 2004 by ceolachan
Well respected or not...
# Posted on November 23rd 2004 by ceolachan
I don't think it's a mistake even... if you have that many tunes floating around in your head it's unavoidable really.
# Posted on November 23rd 2004 by Dow
Since so many of the tunes that are unattributable to any author are versions of one another, why is it any different if one *with* a named author is a version of another tune?
# Posted on November 26th 2004 by granama
See http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/2779 for another transcription.
# Posted on January 16th 2005 by Dow