Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on July 15th 2005 by drone.
This tune has been added to 13 tunebooks.
Also known as Alistair O'Carroll's.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Few Bob, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Gmaj
GA|:BABG EFGA|~B2 G2 G2 gf|e3d cBAG|E2 A2 A2 GA|
~BABG EF G2|~BABd efge|dcBA GABA|1 ~G2 E2 E2 GA :|2 ~G2 E2 E2 ef ||
|:g3e defg|a2 d2 d2 ef|g3f efga|bdad a2 ga|
bgab abgf|edef g2 fe|dcBA GABA|1 ~G2 E2 E2 ef:|2 ~G2 E2 E2 GA||
I lifted this slightly wistful little tune from Maeve Donnelly's album... her fiddle positively rings throughout the whole tune (and album for that matter)... the closest I can manage trying to match her ornamentation on the tilde notes is to try to treat them as a long roll, even though they're 1/8 or 1/4 notes - and that gives a reasonably close approximation of that lovely scratch / stutter. Give her a listen though... it's utterly worth it
# Posted on July 15th 2005 by drone
I've looked for it
Thanks, Greg, for submitting this tune. I've been looking for the dots for a few years now., since the one source I had (fiddler I used to accompany) is no longer available to play it for me.
# Posted on July 21st 2005 by vonnieestes
It was crooked when he played it...
Does anyone know of a crooked version of this tune, or was it just the person playing it for me who made it so?
# Posted on July 21st 2005 by vonnieestes
Alistair O'Carroll's
Learnt this tune off Desi Wilkinson this summer in Miltown. His first part is a bit different A|B2BA BAGE| DGGF G2 Bd| etc. but the second part is more or less the same. I could be mistaken but is the key not E minor rather than G Maj?
# Posted on September 26th 2006 by the wounded hussar
Vonnieestes, any chance you're thinking of the Factory Smoke? http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1985. It's quite similar in places.
# Posted on May 9th 2007 by Dr. Dow
Another name
Hello,
according to "Ceol Rince na hÉireann 2", this tune is also called " Duke's Retreat"
# Posted on October 16th 2009 by Emmanuel Delahaye
The Five Roads
We know this as The Five Roads in Toronto. It came to us from Chris Langan, and is in his book.
For a long time it was thought he had written it, but it's in O'Farrell's vol 4 from 1805 or so as The Duke's Retreat as well as in CRE2, so it's certainly not a Chris tune.
Everybody gets a certain look in their eye when they play it round here.
Lovely tune indeed.
# Posted on March 19th 2011 by Thom Pratt