Key signature: Dmixolydian
Submitted on May 15th 2001 by Jeremy.
This tune has been added to 888 tunebooks.
Also known as Uillean Pipe Set, Blarney Pilgrim, Dean Lloyd's Jig #1, Killoughery Jig No. 1.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Blarney Pilgrim, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmix
|:DED DEG| A2A ABc| BAG AGE| GEA GED|
DED DEG|A2A ABc|BAG AGE| GED D3:|
ded dBG|AGA BGE| ded dBG|AGA GAB|
g2e dBG|AGA BGE|B2G AGE| GAG G3:|
A2D B2D| A2D ABc|BAG AGE|GEA GED|
ADD BDD|ADD ABc|BAG AGE|GED D3:|
I've shown some ideas for varying the lively third part. Sometimes it works well with short, snappy notes and sometimes it's better to squeeze in as many droning D notes as possible.
A great version of this tune being played at a nice, steady pace can be found on the classic Andy Irvine/Paul Brady collaboration album.
# Posted on May 26th 2001 by Jeremy
This is apparently a really well-known tune. I've found it at many free sheet music sites. I first saw it in a pennywhistle book.
# Posted on June 17th 2002 by The Whistler
This tune is nicely paired before The Walls of Liscarrol.
# Posted on March 19th 2004 by Paddy
The Blarney Pilgrim
I have heard this tune played by Gaelic Storm. Seven Nations also does this with Uillean Pipes. I believe it is on the Road Kill CD.
# Posted on January 16th 2005 by Piperlad
Tommy peoples
Tommy Peoples puts a few lovely spins and stutters on this tune on his cd Waiting For A Call.
# Posted on September 22nd 2005 by drone
Titanic confusion
Oddly, in the orchestra arrangement of Gaelic Storm's Titanic version, the second piece (a reel) is labelled as Blarney Pilgrim, while the first one (a jig, and this tune) is left unlabeled...
Now, I need to figure out what the proper name of the second half is.
# Posted on May 8th 2006 by Vil-hatarn
Small correction
I have since found the second tune; it's a polka called Ryan's.
# Posted on May 24th 2006 by Vil-hatarn
Structure...???
this is one of those tunes where I think of the last part as a variation on the first and of the second part as a kind of chorus or refrain.. So i tend to play it ABCB..
Also there's a lovely light version by John Renbourn & Robin Williamson on a track called South Wind & Blarney Pilgrim but I don't know the album name...
# Posted on March 19th 2007 by paulflute
Nice playful version by Paddy Keenan on The Long Grazing Acre.
# Posted on March 20th 2007 by ballyfingers
Key of G - not D mixolydian
I don't see how this tune could be centered on D as tonic - even if mixolydian.
I really do like the tune though - and on mandolin I like playing a couple open D notes along with the melody on that B part - and sometimes an open G note on the A part.
# Posted on May 1st 2007 by Matt_Haverly
Go here for a detailed discussion of the key of this tune http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/14277
# Posted on July 1st 2007 by Dow
I know that there's been plenty of discussion about the key and backing to this tune, but all I ever found was the first part. Anybody have ideas for a good, simple backing for the other two parts?
# Posted on June 18th 2008 by JosephofCK
Clearing up Titanic Confusion
For Gaelic Storm's arrangement I'm nearly 99% certain that the tunes are Blarney Pilgrim followed by Armagh Polka, or at least thats what its being called in my Foinn Seisiun books...
# Posted on February 7th 2009 by Saoirse Cassidy