The Humours Of Westport

reel

Key signature: Fmajor

Submitted on May 25th 2001 by Jeremy.

This tune has been added to 137 tunebooks.

Also known as The Clydesdale Lasses, The Clydeside Lasies, Col McBain, The Humors Of Westport, Humours Of Westport, The Milestone At The Garden, THe Humours Of Westport.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• A Tribute To Joe Cooley by Frankie Gavin, Paul Brock, Charlie Lennon
• A Tribute To Michael Coleman by Joe Burke, Andy McGann And Felix Dolan
• Another Setting by The House Band
• Bohola (3) by Bohola
• Brian Kelly by Brian Kelly
• Brock McGuire Band by Brock McGuire Band
• Cape Breton...My Land In Music by Sandy MacIntyre
• Cape To Clare by Various Artists
• Cé by Cé
• Consider The Source by Brian Conway
• Dance Music Of Ireland: Volume 10 by Matt Cunningham
• Dog Big And Dog Little by Ben Lennon, Seamus Quinn, Gabriel McArdle, Ciaran Curran
• Familiar Footsteps by Dezi Donnelly
• Feel The Bow by Aidan Burke
• Fierce Traditional by Frankie Gavin
• Fonnchaoi by Verena Commins And Julie Langan
• Gone Dancing by Fine Friday
• Halali by Halali
• Harvest Storm by Altan
• Heat Of The Moment by Pierre Schryer And Ian Clark
• In Jig Time! by Brenda Stubbert
• Kilbride by Kilbride Brothers
• Like The Wind (Ar Nos Na Gaoithe) by John Wynne
• Milestone At The Garden by Irish Fiddle Masters From The 78 RPM Era
• My Love Is In America by Various Artists
• The Back Door by Cherish The Ladies
• The House by Dennis Botzer
• The Maid Of Eirin by Grianan
• The Wheels Of The World, Early Irish American Music, Vol. 1 by Various Artists
• Traditional Music From Ireland by Seamus Creagh And Aidan Coffey
• Valiant by The Sevens
• Wired Up by Alistair McCulloch

X: 1
T: Humours Of Westport, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Fmaj
|f2 fe fcAc|f2 fe fage|f2 fe fcAc|BAGA Bcde|
f2 fe fcAc|f2 fe fagb|afge fcAc|BAGA BdcB|
|AFcF dFcF|AFcF BdcB|AFcF dFcF|BAGA BdcB|
AFcF dFcF|AFcF BdcB|Acfa gefc|BAGA Bcde|

Now here's something you don't see every day: a reel in the key of F and a fine reel it is.

If you're really uncomfortable with playing this tune in F you could transpose it up to G, but then you're going to have to stretch as far as the high C note.

The F note that opens the tune and recurs in the first part can be played as a roll or as triplet (FGF or FAF).

# Posted on June 2nd 2001 by Jeremy

Hooray for Brother Steve, who identified this tune in a set by the Bradley Bros. for me. Liam and Anthony play this set as follows:

Beare Island Reel (2x)
Humors of Westport (2x, B first, then A)
Seany Dorris (3x)
Humors of Westport (1 B and 1 A)

A really mighty set, and a helluva lot of fun to play (and to dance to!).

Their setting of this tune is very similar to Jeremy's, as in:

||F2 cF dFcF|(3FFF cF BdcA|F2 cF dFcA|BAGA (3BAG cA|
|F2 cF dFcF|(3FFF cF BdcB|Acfa gecA|1 BAGA (3BAG cA:|2 BAGA (3BAG (3cde||
|~f3e fcAc|fAcf (3def ge|effe fcAc|BAGA (3BAG ce|
||~f3e fcAc|fAcf (3def ge|agfe fcAc|BAGA (3BAG ce|
|effe fgef|(3fff ef efge|effe fcAc|BAGA (3BAG cA|
|Ff (3fff FfAf|(3FFF Af [Bf]3 ^g|agfe fcAc|BAGA (3BAG cA||

# Posted on May 26th 2002 by Zina Lee

The Humours Of Westport

I was tought this tune by the famous fiddler Bruce McGregor. He called it "The Clyde-Side Lasies" and played the parts the other way round. I have recently found out that it can also be known as "Col McBain, so what is its proper bloody name!!!

# Posted on February 23rd 2003 by weemanwatson

The closest relative of this tune is the Clydesdale (or Clydeside) Lasses, which is played with the parts the other way round and has been in print in Scotland from at least 1800; Colonel MacBain is quite a different tune

# Posted on June 18th 2006 by prouse

A subversive suggestion?

change the flat to 2# (f and c) and see if you like it in scubadiving on the Altiplano type of Bminor mode. (or is it F# caddys fly phrygian?)

# Posted on September 30th 2006 by birlibirdie

The Humours of Westport

This is on the second track of Ben Lennon's "Dog Big and Dog Little" CD. The band reverses the order of the A and B parts, to advantage, imho. Try it.

# Posted on December 27th 2006 by lazyhound

East Galway Version in G

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1771

# Posted on April 4th 2007 by slainte

The B part sounds a bit like Pretty Peg.

# Posted on August 5th 2007 by willv

AKA The Milestone at the Garden

# Posted on October 23rd 2008 by Ionannas