The Virginia

reel

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on August 24th 2005 by Orlando.

This tune has been added to 20 tunebooks.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• After The Break by Planxty
• Bandalised by Vin Garbutt
• Ceilizemer: Shalom Ireland by The Freilachmakers Klezmer String Band And Driving With Fergus
• Contentment Is Wealth by Matt Molloy And Sean Keane
• Flower Of The Red Mill by Sarah Blair
• Foinn Seisiun 3 by Ennis/Dublin Session Group
• Harmony Hill by Dervish
• Irlande by Frankie Gavin, Arty Mc Glynn And Aidan Coffey
• Melodeon by John Gannon
• Mick Mulcahy And Friends by Mick Mulcahy
• Notes From The Heart by Mick, Louise And Michelle Mulcahy
• Over The Edge by Moher
• Russell's House by Russell's House
• The Jolly Tinker by Kane O'Rourke
• The Living Wood by Maire Ni Chathasaigh And Chris Newman
• Uilleann Pipes by Pat Mitchell

X: 1
T: Virginia, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
B2-|:"G" Bcde d2g2|d2gf afg2|Bcde d2dd|
[1"D7" cBAc "G" BAG2:|2"D7" cBAF "G" G2ef||
|:\
M:4/4
"G" g2bg agbg|dgbg agef|g2bg agbg|dedc BAG2|
g2bg agbg|dgbg "D7" a2aa|abag f{g}fd2|
M: 6/4
[1"D7" efgaba "G" gfg2ef:|2"D7" efgaba "G" gfg2g2||
M: 4/4
|:"G" Bcde d2g2|d2gf afg2|Bcde d2dd|
[1"D7" cBAc "G" BAG2:|2"D7" cBAF "G" G2DF||
|:\
M:4/4
G2[BG]G AG[BG]G|DFGB AGEF|G2[BG]G AG[BG]G|
DEDC B,A,G,2|G2[BG]G AG[BG]G|DFGB "D7" A2AB|cBAF GFED|
M: 6/4
[1"D7" EFGAB{c}B "G" AFG2EF:|2"D7" EFGAB{c}B "G" AFG2[G2B2]||

Another A.J. Boulay tune; see comments at:

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/4867

Just a fun little tune!

# Posted on August 24th 2005 by Orlando

It sounds like Lord McDonald's, a bit.

# Posted on August 25th 2005 by Dow

In Oklahoma we know this tune as Leather Breeches.

# Posted on August 25th 2005 by dmarie

A different Virginia reel!

This doesn't sound like the Virginia reel that was played back in the seventies by Planxty and other musicians of that era - original one started something like "DBBA B3 B BAdB AFEF"

# Posted on August 25th 2005 by Bannerman

It's a different tune; the other virginia reel is also on thesession, in D.

# Posted on April 8th 2006 by ewallace