Haste To The Wedding

I'm not sure, but I think this tune might be English or Scottish, rather than Irish in origin. I seem to recall it cropping up in a Thomas Hardy novel.

I like it. It has a nice "lift" to it.

# Posted on March 10th 2002 by Jeremy

Waste in the Bedding

Good tune Jer, I know this tune is very popular with the Contra bunch, it's also a staple for the old New England fiddle rep. It may be one of those truely "Celtic" tunes that gets played in all the Celtic countries.

Again good tune!

# Posted on March 11th 2002 by Brad Maloney

Lyrics

Haste to the Wedding (Rural Felicity)

Come haste to the wedding ye friends and ye neighbors,
The lovers their bliss can no longer delay.
Forget all your sorrows your cares and your labors,
And let every heart beat with rapture today.
Come, come one and all, attend to my call,
And revel in pleasures that never can cloy.
Come see rural felicity,
Which love and innocence ever enjoy.

Let Envy, Let Pride, Let Hate & Ambition,
Still Crowd to, & beat at the breast of the Great,
To Such Wretched Passions we Give no admission,
But Leave them alone to the wise ones of State,
We Boast of No wealth, but Contentment & Health,
In mirth & in friends, our moments employ
Come See &c.
With Reason we taste of Each Heart Stirring pleasure,
With Reason we Drink of the full flowing Bowl,
Are Jocund & Gay, But 'tis all within measure,
For fatal excess will enslave the free Soul,
Then Come at our bidding to this Happy wedding,
No Care Shall obtrude here, our Bliss to annoy,
Come See &c.

Collected from Eunice Carew's songbook, 1790

# Posted on April 8th 2004 by bsykes62

The Irish R.M.

You may remember that this was also the theme tune for the eighties TV programme "The Irish R.M".
The music for the series was recorded by De Danann and others and released on the album "The Irish RM" in 1982.

# Posted on March 16th 2005 by Back for a while

Question about set with Haste to the Wedding

Ok, my friend's band has asked that I teach them one Irish set (they play traditional music, a little bluegrass, old-time, gospel) and then sit in with them at a show they have coming up. I want to include Haste to the Wedding, so I'm trying to build a crowd pleasing set around it. One idea so far is:

Smash the Windows/Coleraine/Haste to the Wedding

I really like this, because, well I like all 3 tunes a lot, and the Dmajor to Aminor (or is it Dorian?) back to Dmajor is nice, I feel. However, the problem I am having is that I like a moderatly brisk tempo for Haste, and STW can also be pretty upbeat. However, Colleraine is a march, and it sounds odd played at the same tempo. I suppose I could just accentuate it like a jig, and it might work? I have always slurred the first 2 notes of the triplet, and played the 3rd stacatto, to stress the march feel.

Any suggestions? Can we simply slow down for the middle song of the set and speed up for the other 2? The only history I have performing Irish music was accompanying dancers, so I would never dream of not playing a set at the same speed. However, without the dancers, is there anything wrong with doing this?

Thanks for your help and feedback,

Jonathan

PS- This is my first time posting, although I've enjoyed the database of tunes and message board for many years now!

# Posted on September 27th 2005 by JONATHAN2001

Re: Question about set with Haste to the Wedding

Try Lilting Banshee / Haste To The Wedding / My Darling Asleep

# Posted on September 27th 2005 by celtic strings

Re: Question about set with Haste to the Wedding

Do you want the set to be all 6/8's or would you consider mixing up tempos and type of tune? If keeping them all at 6/8 and wanting to include a 6/8 march at slower pace then I would be inclined to start with the March and then go up tempo, finishing with a good blast. Choosing tunes with good links is vital. Start gentle but have a good tune for third which tells you itself that it is a good finisher. have HTTW as your base but rethink on the others.

# Posted on September 27th 2005 by hetty

Re: Question about set with Haste to the Wedding

Coleraine to HTTW would work if you have an 'A' as a transition to 'D' in HTTW. Final tune in 'G'!?

# Posted on September 27th 2005 by hetty

Is this also the same tune played by the Corrs?

# Posted on December 12th 2006 by redindygo

Cape Breton setting in A

# Posted on January 23rd 2007 by DonaldK

looking for the Corrs version of Haste to the wedding...

Greetings folks!

Can anyone give me a link or an ABC version of Haste to the wedding played by the Corrs...

The one that I've got from the session is similar in the beginning but the middle part is different.

if someone got one please share.

Thankx
XD

# Posted on March 18th 2007 by redindygo

Re: looking for the Corrs version of Haste to the wedding...

ha ha ha, ho ho tee hee. Ahhh ha ha ha ha ha.

# Posted on March 18th 2007 by llig leahcim

Re: looking for the Corrs version of Haste to the wedding...

"Mr President - The Mongons!" :-)

# Posted on March 18th 2007 by Ptarmigan

Re: looking for the Corrs version of Haste to the wedding...

Sorry - that last quote'll mean nothing to you, if you haven't watched this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5GtxeJe58k

P.S. Sorry redindygo, the Corrs don't actually play on that video! Ha, the day I post a link to a Corrs video ......................................

# Posted on March 18th 2007 by Ptarmigan

Re: looking for the Corrs version of Haste to the wedding...

I want to learn Mick Flavin's version of 'Haste to the Wedding'!

# Posted on March 18th 2007 by Ptarmigan

Re: looking for the Corrs version of Haste to the wedding...

# Posted on March 18th 2007 by Dow

Re: looking for the Corrs version of Haste to the wedding...

OK I've had my fun - you can listen to it here redindygo:
http://www.thecorrswebsite.com/lyrics/home012.htm

# Posted on March 18th 2007 by Ptarmigan

Re: looking for the Corrs version of Haste to the wedding...

I would be in haste to marry any of the corrs (apart from the bloke that is )

# Posted on March 18th 2007 by bazouki dave

McNulty Family Lyrics...

“Haste to the wedding, and haste to the wedding”
I sang as I sat at the window alone.
But Brohn, Oh dear, the thought I was dreadin’
– I’d not get a man and a place of me own.

I’d polish the fuser; I’d tidy the kitchen,
Me dress would look white as a stack in the snow,
And here by the window my skirt I was stitchin’,
For I’m very neat with the needle to sew.
What is the use of me mendin’ me finers
Until it is fit for a queen on her thrown.
Oh dear, there isn’t a sign of me gettin’ a man and a place of me own.

“Haste to the wedding, and haste to the wedding”
I sang as I sat at the window alone.
But Brohn, Oh dear, the thought I was dreadin’
– I’d not get a man and a place of me own.

T’was nearly made up once between me and Larry,
That lived on the mountain a port by the bounds,
With 45 acres of land and a quarnie,
He’d take me and welcome with 95 pounds.
When he couldn’t get it, He said we’d regret it,
Then he got wed to a widow in town.
Oh dear, I lost my repetitise sensible man with a house of his own.

“Haste to the wedding, and haste to the wedding”
I sang as I sat at the window alone.
But Brohn, Oh dear, the thought I was dreadin’
– I’d not get a man and a place of me own.

I found in my first cup of tea the next Monday
A lucky red tea leaf some stranger could call.
I tried seven times, he travelled on Sundays;
I wondered for what it was commin’ at all:
Who was it but Lancey last Sunday for Nancy,
Buried his mother last May in Kilcone.
Now dear, I’ll marry me fancy,
The boy of me heart with a place of his own.

“Haste to the wedding, and haste to the wedding”
Not long I’ll be sittin’ and singin’ alone.
Soon dear, with young Auntie Ridden,
I’ll run like a queen in a house of me own.

# Posted on March 29th 2008 by apriloreilly13