Darby's Farewell To London

reel

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on July 14th 2005 by Kenny.

This tune has been added to 24 tunebooks.

Also known as Darby's Farewell, Josie McDermot's.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• A Rival Heart by Mark Evans
• Darby's Farewell by Josie McDermott
• It's Not Racket Science by At The Racket
• Potsticks by Sean Moloney
• Ready For The Storm by Déanta
• The Flute Players Of Roscommon - Vol 1 by Various Artists
• The Mouse Behind The Dresser by Shaskeen
• The Rolling Wave by Cian
• The Totally Traditional Tin Whistle Tape by Various Artists
• Unearthed by Paul McGlinchey
• Upon My Soul by James Carty
• With Every Breath by John Wynne
• Within A Mile O' Jamestown by Mick Mulvey

X: 1
T: Darby's Farewell To London
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
BGEG DEGA | BGdG eGdG | BE E2 DEGA | BGdB G2 GA |
B2 EG DEGA | BGdG eGdG | BG G2 EG G2 | FGAF G2 GA |
BGEG DEGA | BGdG eGdG | BGEG DEGA | BGdB G3 A |
BG G2 FG G2 | EG G2 eG G2 | BG G2 eGdG | FGAF G3 A |
|: BABd eg g2 | eaag ef g2 | GABd g2 eg | dBAB GE D2 |
GABd eg g2 | e2 ag efga | bgag egdG |1 FGAF G2 GA :|2 FGAF G4 |

Darby's Farewell

Requested by "madmike", and I was surprised it wasn’t here already.
Another classic flute reel by Josie McDermott. This was a difficult one to transcribe, because there are so many different versions with different variations going around. It’s been much recorded by flute-players, and none I could find played it the same as anyone else. Even Josie himself didn’t play it the same when he played it twice on his 1977 record on the Topic label. “Darby’s Farewell” was the title track.
Please feel free to add any of the many recorded variations on this fine piece of music.
Because of the variations, I’ve posted the first part as 16 bars.

# Posted on July 14th 2005 by Kenny

Darby's Farewell to London

Josie's own recording of the tune can be found on Rich Lafferty's Flute Geezers page: http://www.lafferty.ca/music/irish/flute-geezers

# Posted on May 8th 2009 by slainte