Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on October 21st 2005 by Why Bother?.
This tune has been added to 25 tunebooks.
Also known as Willie's Fling #2, Willie's Fling No 2, Willie's Fling No. 2, Willie's Highland Fling.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Willie's Fling
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: strathspey
K: Dmaj
AD~D2 FD~D2|AD~D2 dedc|AD~D2 FD~D2|DEFD G2FG:|
|:ABAG ~F3G|AddB =cAGA|~A2GA FGEF|1 DEFD G2 (3EFG:|2 DEFD G2d^c||
This is a Willie Clancy tune. It appears on Danu's "When all is Said and Done" that is where I heard it first.
# Posted on October 21st 2005 by Why Bother?
Tommy Keane played this on 'The Piper`s Apron' as the last tune in a set with The Dusty Miller (Seamus Ennis version in Dmaj), and The Silver Slipper.
This is an interesting set of tunes in that they are fairly
similar melodically but have different rythms. The set starts in 3s with The Dusty Miller, alternates between 3s & 4s (slip/single jig) in The Silver Slipper, then finishes in 4s with Willie`s Fling.
I guess this is probably not strictly traditional, Mixing rythms in this fashion, but it sounds great, and it`s good to have fun with the music.
Cheers to all.
# Posted on October 24th 2005 by gardener2
Interesting because Tony McManus and Alain Gentry play the same set on "Singing Sands"
# Posted on January 15th 2006 by Why Bother?
This reminds me of the Four Courts: http://thesession.org/tunes/display.php/2278
# Posted on January 15th 2006 by slainte
I see what you are talking about, especially the A part.
# Posted on January 26th 2006 by Why Bother?
...keeps occupying my head
That's an amazingly simple and catchy tune. The Chieftains play it with Altan on 'Water from the well' video/album in 'Donegal Set' http://thesession.org/recordings/display/192 #10 - seems to be missing.
...they burn))!!
# Posted on December 15th 2006 by Bregolas
My poor, old arthritic hand is so sore from these right hand rolls on the whistle but the tune is STUCK in my head!
# Posted on November 22nd 2008 by c.smitty
Well, I have permission from my trainer/instructor, Michael Copeland to play this roll two-handed due to my poor old arthritic hands and the pain I was experiencing. Some whistle purists will be taking fits, but it comes out much cleaner that way for me, and how it sounds counts more in my mind (and his) than how it's played. Thanks, Michael!
# Posted on December 16th 2008 by c.smitty