Billy In The Lowground

reel

Key signature: Cmajor

Submitted on October 30th 2005 by Why Bother?.

This tune has been added to 69 tunebooks.

Also known as Billy In The Low Ground.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Black Mountain Harmonica by Tony Eyers
• No Place Like Home by Gerry O'Connor
• The Civil War Collection by Jim Taylor
• Tunes by Sharon Shannon, Frankie Gavin, Michael McGoldrick And Jim Murray

X: 1
T: Billy In The Lowground
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Cmaj
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"C"G,A,CD EGAB|cBcd cAGB|"Am"ABAG EGAB|"G"cAGE DC C2:|
"C"eg2eg2 eg|afed cAG2|"Am"ea2ga2 eg|agab ag e2|
"C"eg2eg2 eg|aged cAGB|"Am"ABAG EGAB|"G"cAGE "C"DC C2|]

Heard this on "Tunes" by Shannon, Gavin, McGoldrick, and Murray. I found this on JC's this is the closest match to the one on the album.

# Posted on October 30th 2005 by Why Bother?

Billy In the Lowground

This is an American version of a much older tune which has been known in Scotland for centuries, and it has a few Irish variants too. "The Braes of Auchtertyre" was first published in Stewart's Collection in c1761,and later became a strathspey; however, it likely stemmed from an even older tune, "O Dear Mother, What Shall I Do?" (to which it is said the jigs "Blue Bonnets Over the Border" and thus "Scotsman Over the Border" related).

In Ireland the tune has been called "The Belles of Tipperary" and "The Beaux of Albany", and another tune, "Miss Monaghan" is related.

# Posted on October 30th 2005 by nigelg

Billy in the lowground

This is close to the bluegrass version favoured by guitar players. A great version is played by Byron Berline (fiddle) and the late Clarence White (guitar) with the band Country Gazette.

# Posted on April 8th 2007 by phild28