Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on March 20th 2005 by Dow.
This tune has been added to 37 tunebooks.
Also known as Dermot McLaughlin's, The Three Merry Sisters Of Fate, Trip Up Stairs, Trip Upstairs, Tripping Up Stairs, Tripping Upstairs.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Tripping Up The Stairs
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
~d3f ecde|fB~B2 dBAB|~d3f edcd|eA~A2 eAce:|
|:a2^ga faea|fB~B2 fBdf|affe afec|A2 (3cBA eAce:|
%Variation on A-part
d2fd caec|B2 (3dcB fBBc|defa edcB|A2 (3cBA eAce||
Dermot McLaughlin's
Picked this up from our session. Tend to play the A-part variation 2nd time thru' instead of just repeating the basic tune.
# Posted on March 20th 2005 by Dow
Paul O Shaughnessy taught this at An Scoil Gheimhridh Frankie Kennedy - but in G.
# Posted on June 4th 2005 by Lizzy
Yes, I think it might be related to the Sword In Hand http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1425.
# Posted on January 13th 2006 by Dow
According to various net sources, this is a Donegal relative of the Merry Sisters Of Fate http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/623, popular with the Doherty family.
# Posted on May 19th 2008 by Dow
I realised that this is the same tune as the one that appears on Altan's "The Red Crow". They start with the B-part for effect and then play the tune as normal, rounding the tune off with the same part.
X: 1
T: The Three Merry Sisters Of Fate
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
D: Altan - The Red Crow
R: reel
K: Dmaj
d2fd edce|fB~B2 fBce|d2fd edcd|eA~A2 eAce:|
ea^ga fece|fB~B2 fece|a2^ga fecd|eA~A2 eAcd|
ea^ga fece|fB~B2 fece|a2^ga fgaf|edef gece||
# Posted on May 19th 2008 by Dow
There is a version in jig time in Thompson's Compleat Collection of Country Dances c.1770
# Posted on July 27th 2008 by fynnjamin