The Irish Rover

barndance

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on July 27th 2005 by ceolachan.

This tune has been added to 103 tunebooks.

Also known as The Irish Rover's March, The March Of The Irish Rover.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• 40 Years Reunion by The Dubliners
• Dance Music Of Ireland: Volume 4 by Matt Cunningham
• Dance Time In Ireland by Larry McKee And The Shandonairs
• Happy Days by Trad Lads
• Irish Folk Rock by McPontiac
• Nine Fine Irishmen's Sin E Ri-Ra by Sin E Ri-Ra
• Rakish Paddies by Rapalje
• The Rowsome Tradition: Five Generations Of Uileann Piping by Kevin Rowsome

X: 1
T: Irish Rover, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: barndance
K: Gmaj
|: d c/B/A |
G2 B>c d2 ga | bc'/b/ af g2 fe | d2 ed B2 cB | A2 d>e dc c/B/A |
G2 Bc d2 g>a | b2 a>f g2 fe | d2 fg a2 fd | g4- g :|
|: d ga |
b2 ga bc'/b/ gb | ab/a/ g/f/e d2 ef | g>f ga b2 gb | a>g fe d>c BA |
GD/G/ B/c/d d3 g/a/ | zb a>f g3 f/e/ | d3 f/g/ a/b/a/g/ f/e/d | g4- g :|

"The Irish Rover" ~ march

This is also player AB, rather than as here AABB. Here is another transcription of this as a march:

"Matt Cunningham's Dance Music of Ireland"
Dave Mallinson Publications, 1999
http://www.mally.com/
ISBN: 1-899512-45-4
Page 44

This version's second part, first bar, begins: | g2 ga b2 gb |
& the parts are played AB, without repeats...

# Posted on July 27th 2005 by ceolachan

Screwed up again, apologies, now corrected in the ABCs, a problem I sometimes have with 'c's ~ c', old ABC notation:

Part-A, bar 2: ~ | bc'/b/ af g2 fe |
Part-B, bar 1: ~ | b2 ga bc'/b/ gb |

# Posted on July 27th 2005 by ceolachan