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The Lark's March

jig

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on June 16th 2006 by Kenny.

This tune has been added to 29 tunebooks.

Also known as The Geese In The Bog, The Lark In The Bog, Tom Broderick's.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

A Celebration Of 50 Years by The Tulla Ceili Band
A Musical Trip To Coleman Country by Various Artists
Alba by Alba
An Exciting Session With One Of Ireland's Leading Traditional Fiddlers by Tommy Peoples
An Fhidil, Sraith 2 by Sean Keane, Kevin Burke, Paddy Glackin And Seamus Creagh
Another Side Of Cape Breton by Johnny Wilmot
Any Old Time by Any Old Time
Are Here Again by Trad Lads
Banish Misfortune by Mithril
Bimis Ag Ol by Ronan Le Bars
Bosca Bideach by Micheal Darby O Fatharta
Celtic Roots (Spirit Of Dance) by John Whelan
Collection Of Jigs And Reels by Shaskeen
Diamonds by Rapalje
Far From Home by Boys Of The Lough
Fingal by Fingal
Flower Of The Red Mill by Sarah Blair
Foinn Seisiun 1 by Ceoltóirí Cultúrlainne
Forgotten Days by Davy Spillane And Kevin Glackin
Fortune Favours The Merry by Peter Horan And Gerry Harrington
From Ballymote To Brooklyn by Paddy Killoran and James Morrison
Glass Of Beer by Greenhouse
Ireland's Best Session Tunes CD 2 by Waltons Recording
Irish Traditional Music (on Uilleann Pipes, Hammered Dulcimer, Fiddle, Flute And Whistle) by Various Artists
Keelwest by Paul McGrattan
Live And In Session by The Tannahill Weavers
Live In Corofin by Cruinniú
Liz Carroll by Liz Carroll
Many Happy Returns by Arcady
Master Irish Fiddle Player by Tommy Peoples
Masters Of Irish Music by Seamus Ennis
Mi.da:za by North Cregg
Music From Co.Leitrim by Packie Duignan And Seamus Horan
Music From Sliabh Luachra by Denis Murphy
Noel Hill And Tony Linnane by Noel Hill And Tony Linnane
Oidhreacht by Conor Keane
Open Road by Boys Of The Lough
Over The Edge by Moher
Raise The Rafters by Raise The Rafters
Rattlin' Banjos (part 1) by Gerry O'Connor
Set Dances Of Ireland, Volume III by Various Artists
Set Dancing Downunder by The Coast Ceili Band
Sligo Fiddle (Disk 2) by John Vesey
Tannahill Weavers by The Tannahill Weavers
The Best Of ... by The Tannahill Weavers
The Coleman Archive Vol. 2: The Home Place by Various Artists
The Dusty Bridge by Fergal Scahill
The Fire Aflame by Keane, Molloy, O'Flynn
The Irish Music Anthology (40 Classic Songs, Jigs And Reels) by Various Artists
The Killaville Sessions by Ceoltoiri Coleman
The Lark's March by Patricia Clark
The Long Finger by Barry Carroll And Joe McHugh
The Man From Clare by Micho Russell
The Phantom Shadows Of A Connaught Fire (2 Of 3) by Seamus Tansey
The Rare Old Times by Foggy Dew
The Rushy Mountain: Classic Music From Sliabh Luachra 1952-77 by Various Artists
The Star Of Munster Trio by The Star Of Munster Trio
The Thorn Tree by Grainne Hambly
Track Across The Deep by London Lasses And Pete Quinn

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The Lark's March

“browndog” asked about this tune, which I thought would have been here, but if it is, I haven’t been able to find it. I first heard it by “The Boys Of The Lough”, and learned their version of the tune, but it may have changed slightly over the years. There are different versions of the tune in Breathnach’s CRE Vol.1, Bulmer & Sharpley Vol.4, and also at Henrik Norbeck’s website. Sometimes known as “The Geese In The Bog”, but as there’s a more common tune of that name, that just confuses things.

# Posted on June 16th 2006 by Kenny

Glad to finally see this here. I was too shy... ;-) Now, if it survives I'll try to remember to return here and offer up at least one other take on it... Someone had mentioned this 5-parter ages ago, which is what started off the long delay........... Good on yuh Kenny...

# Posted on June 16th 2006 by ceolachan

"The Lark's March" ~ 2-part, 32 bars

Submitted on April 9th 2003 by slainte.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1580

& browndog's comment... Hell, he had it in a book, why didn't he ABC it for us? No matter, now it is here... Hey browndog, if you and Rafferty's take on this is different, can we please have the notes added here in the comments?

# Posted on June 16th 2006 by ceolachan

"The Lark's March" ~ For clarity, while these two melodies share the same name, they are different tunes....

# Posted on June 16th 2006 by ceolachan

"Music from Ireland Volume 4"

Bulmer & Sharpley, 1976 ~ out of print
Page 22, tune #62

K: D Major
B |:
AFE F3 | DED DFB | AFE FAE | DFA B2 d |
AFE F3 | DED D2 f | gfe fdB | AFA B3 :|
|: A2 d fdB | ABA AFB | A2 d fdB | AFA B2 d |
A2 d fdB | ABA Aef | gfe fdB | AFA B3 :|
|: Add fdd | edd fdB | Add fdB | AFA B2 A |
Add fdB | ABA Aef | gfe fdB | AFA B2 d :|
|: DFA dAF | DFA BAF | DFA dAF | DFA B2 A |
DFA d2 A | dfe def | gfe fdB | AFA B3 :|
|: d3 def | AFF FED | ded def | ~a3 A2 B |
d2 d def | ded def | gfe fdB |1 AFA B3 :|
2 AFA B2 || This second ending is an addition...

# Posted on June 16th 2006 by ceolachan

Is it related to "The Lark In The Morning"?They certainly share some similarities.

# Posted on June 16th 2006 by meri-lawes

"The Lark In The Morning"

Submitted on May 25th 2001 by Jeremy.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/62

Really only the one part, the last/4th part of "The Lark in the Morning" and the 3rd part of "The Larks March", and of course ~ Larks! They are inspiring birds... I don't have the information at hand for dating either, but it wouldn't surprise me that either the parts got mixed in, or one was the inspiration of the other. You could, if you were mad enough, just about create one huge tune from the two... ;-)

They each have their repeating phrase endings that are shared between every part, bars four and eight... Here is a comparison of the parts with their respective endings:

# Posted on June 16th 2006 by ceolachan

This jig is on Peter Horan and Gerry Harrington's recent album "Fortune Favours the Merry." The sleeve notes informs Paddy Killoran recorded it in the mid-1930s.

# Posted on June 16th 2006 by slainte

Yes, and a damn fine recording... HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

# Posted on June 16th 2006 by ceolachan

I should have been specific, as I am unfamiliar with the Horan Harrington recording... I was exclaiming over the Paddy Killoran recording ~ with bias...

# Posted on June 16th 2006 by ceolachan

Lark's March/Geese in the Bog

There was a discussion about this tune over at C&F a fair while ago. From what I recall, it's more properly known as the Geese in the Bog (and on the pipes, a couple of the parts have some nice honking low Ds, so it indeed sounds like a goose!).

Seamus Ennis insisted it's name was the Lark's March, but Paddy Killoran recorded it as the Geese in the Bog. I for one prefer the Lark's March, since 1) you don't get it confused with the two-part Geese, and 2) you get to tell his great story about the competition between two pipers.

"There's a story, in Ireland, about a competition between two pipers..."

# Posted on June 17th 2006 by Nico

"The Geese in the Bog" ~ 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 8 parts ~ POOF!

There is also an 8-part "Geese in the Bog" which I submitted a few months back, with the intention of providing a number of alternate names and takes, including 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 part versions and links to relatives, with information attached, and I ahd it all in hand ~ ~ ~ but ~ ~ ~ before I could do that ~ ~ ~ the submission was axed ~ ~ ~ "Poof!!!' ~ ~ ~ and I never got what I'd call a satisfactory reason for that.

But, I'm glad that someone managed to submit one of those versions, this 5-parter, and it looks like this time it might remain. Let's hope that with you behind it Kenny it will survive. Anyway Kenny, now you'll see why I was shy to attempt it again, even with one of the other takes, like the requested 5-part version... Anyway, I've added just a little here, and I'll leave it up to someone else to add all the other many takes and links on this melody set... 2 to 8... I didn't find anything larger than 8, but that was a fine version and had history...

# Posted on June 17th 2006 by ceolachan

OK, so ceolachan coaxed me into posting this... :-) I, too, was too shy to post this previously...

The A, B, & D parts were taught by Mike Rafferty at East Durham in 2004. I transcribed them directly from my lesson tape. He called it "Tom Broderick's" because he got it from Tom Broderick, who was a neighbor of Mike Rafferty's when he was young. The "A+B+D" setting is the only setting that I have learned so far, but for completeness, I have copied the C and E parts directly from a compilation by Lesl Harker called "300 TUNES from Mike Rafferty".

|:d2d def|A3 AFA|e3 ede|fed BAB|
d2d DEF|A3 AFA|e3 ede|1 fdC d2a|2 fdC d3:||

# Posted on June 18th 2006 by browndog

Tom Broderick's Jig

This is the 2nd tune I ever learned. The way I had it originally was the first 2 parts as posted by Browndog. A few weeks later Mike told me he remembered another part to it and would I like it, yes please, and I got the third part.

Several years later when we were playing tunes on pipes and whistle (me on whistle mind you) this one came up again, but the third part had disappeared (he felt it sounded too much like the Lark in the Morning) and the fourth part appeared before the 5th part. So nowadays we play it that way, first part, 2nd, 4th and then 5th.

I believe it was Seamus Ennis who called this tune The Lark's March. I use this as my reference title because the Geese in the Bog is the name for another tune I have, as Kenny also mentioned. But I mainly call it Tom Broderick's Jig. I did find this tune in Breathnach and in Henrik Norbeck's collection with the third part included (also there are even more parts as Ceolachan mentioned, I think I found up to 7 myself) so when I did the book I left in that third part.

As Slainte mentions it is on the Fortune Favours the Merry with Peter Horan and Gerry Harrington. Was I surprised one day listening in the car "sheesh they're playing Tom Broderick's Jig!"

A small anecdote on Tom Broderick - he and Barrell Rafferty used to go over to the Ballinasloe fair (30 miles, walking "by shank's mare" or getting a ride in a cart) to see and hear the blind piper Dinny Delaney.

Lesl

# Posted on June 18th 2006 by LH

Tom Broderick's Jig - typos

My 'b's are supposed to be 'B's. I apologize for the typos.

# Posted on June 19th 2006 by browndog

Browndog's Tom Broderick's rehashed - - - ?

~ with a few adjustments to an unintended low C here and there, and that DEF and an a and a repeat in a strange place... ;-)
T: Tom Broderick's
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:jig
K:Dmaj
|: B |
AFE F3 | DED D2 B | AFE F3 | DFA BdB |
AFE F3 | DED D2 f | gfe fdB |1 AFA Bd :|
2 AFA B2 A ||
|: d2 e fed | AFA DFA | d2 e fed | AFA B2 A |
def edB | BAF ABd | faf edB |1 AFA B2 A :|
2 AFA B2 B ||
|: ABd fdd | ede fdB | ABd fed | edA BAF |
A2 d fdd | ede fed | faf g2 e | edA BdB :|
|: DFA dAF | DFA BGE | DFA d2 F | GEF GFE |
DFA d2 e | edc def | gfe fdB | AFA B2 B :|
|: d2 d def | A3 AFA | e3 ede | fed BAB |
d2 d def | A3 AFA | e3 ede |1 fdc d2 A :|
2 fdc d2 ||

# Posted on June 19th 2006 by ceolachan

Lark`s March / An Buachaillin Bui

Seamus Ennis recorded this tune a number of times, this 5 part version appeared as The Lark`s March on Forty Years of Irish Piping, a 2 part version titled An Buachaillin Bui appeared
on The Return From Fingal.

Robbie Hannan also recorded a 2 part version as An Buachaillin Bui on Traditional Irish Music Played on the Uilleann Pipes.

# Posted on June 23rd 2006 by gardener2

Hey gardener2 (is there a gardener1, 3 or more?) ~ what about some ABC's, if there are any interesting differences? Ennis was also familiar with the 8-part version... Robbie is a fine piper and I'd love to see a transcript of him playing this, but maybe better in the comments for the two-part contribution ~ the link is given up top...

# Posted on June 23rd 2006 by ceolachan

Two-part version

The Burnt Old Man: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1029

# Posted on March 4th 2007 by slainte

Noel Hill & Tony Linnane also recorded it under the title "Geese In The Bog" - confusing, as Kenny points out.

# Posted on September 8th 2007 by Dow

Listen to Mairead Hurley of Ballymote play a gorgeous version of this jig on the concertina: http://www.rte.ie/radio1/thebloomofyouth/rams/2007/4august.smil (starts around 35:20)
From The Bloom of Youth 2007: http://www.rte.ie/radio1/thebloomofyouth

# Posted on September 13th 2007 by slainte