Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on January 3rd 2007 by nicholas.
This tune has been added to 27 tunebooks.
Also known as Trasna Na DTonnta.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Westering Home
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Dmaj
|:A3 B A2|A2 F2 A2|d2 d2 e2|f6 |g3 f e2|f3 e d2|B2 B3 B|A6 |
A3 B A2|A2 F2 A2|d2 d2 e2|f4 g2|a3 f d2|f4 e2|d6 |d6 |
a3 f d2|d3 e f2|e3 f e2|A6 |A2 d2 d2|d3 e f2|g3 f g2|e6 |
a3 f d2|d3 e f2|e3 f e2|A4 g2|f3 e d2|f4 e2|d6 | d6 :|
Westering Home - A well-known Scottish waltz tune.
A nice 3/4, deservedly well-known in Scotland (with little adaptation it can serve as a pipe band tune). I'm surprised it's not already gone into the database; though not Irish it's good enough and well-known enough to merit a place here.
# Posted on January 3rd 2007 by nicholas
Westering home
a nice waltz versio of the Mucking of Geordies byre Nice words too .The original is used to pipe in the haggis on Burns night.Happy new year
# Posted on January 3rd 2007 by cruiser
Westering Home
Chorus..
And it's Westering home, and a song in the air,
Light in the eye, and it's goodbye to care.
Laughter o' love, and a welcoming there,
Isle of my heart, my own one.
Tell me 0' lands o' the Orient gay,
Speak o' the riches and joys 0' Cathay;
Eh, but it's grand to be wakin' ilk day
To find yourself nearer to Isla.
Chorus: And it's Westering home etc.
Where are the folk like the folk o' the west?
Canty, and couthy, and kindly, the best.
There I would hie me and there I would rest
At hame wi' my ain folk in Isla.
Chorus: And it's Westering home etc. -
# Posted on January 3rd 2007 by dafydd
Isla...Islay? Huge peat bogs and whisky mines, if I remember. Never been to that one but I dare say it's worth a stopover if it's not belting down and a trillion midges stay their hand.
# Posted on January 3rd 2007 by nicholas
Westering Home: one or two abc mistakes.
Somewhere in the second part there's a low A that ought to be a high a, and a high a that ought to be a low A. I've altered the abc's but obviously can't alter the sheet music or midi.
# Posted on January 4th 2007 by nicholas
I don't think that it's a Waltz version of The Muckin' O' Geordie's Byre.
# Posted on January 4th 2007 by dafydd
Festering Ho in Geordies Byre
L:1/4
K:D
|:A>BA|AFA|d2e|f2a|g2e|f2d|e2d|Bcd|
M of GB could work quite well as a waltz
# Posted on January 5th 2007 by geoffwright
It has to be `A man`s a man ` to pipe in the haggis
# Posted on January 7th 2007 by black
Westering home
Of course Black it is "A mans a man" for the haggis on Jan 25. Imust be drinking the wrong stuff. There was a text going around after a recent champions league match. "A Man U is a Man U for a that "!
# Posted on January 13th 2007 by cruiser
Across The Waves
This tune is the same as Trasna Na dTonnta, an Irish sailors tune about returning home.
Trasna na dtonnta, dul siar, dul siar.
Slán leis an uaigneas is slán leis an gcéan
Geal é mo chroí agus geal í an ghrian,
Geal bheith ag filleadh go hEirinn.
Chonaic mo dhóthair de thíortha í gcéin
Ór agus airgead, saibhreas an tsaoil.
Éiríonn an chroí 'nam le breacadh gach lae.'s mé ag druidim le duiche mo mhuintire.
Curfá
Muintir am Iarthair 's iad cáirde mo chroí
Fáilte is feile beidh romham ar gach taobh.
Ar fhágail an tsaoil 's é ghuím ar an Rí,
Gur leo sin a chínfear I gcill mé.
Curfá
English Translation:
Across the Waves
Chorus:
Crossing the waves going west, going west.
Goodbye to the loneliness & bye to the sadness
Bright is my heart and bright is the sun.
Bright to be returning to Ireland.
I saw my fill of unhappy lands.
Gold and silver, a wealthy way of life
The heart arises with the break of each day.
And me approaching the lands of my people.
Chorus:
The western people are friends of my heart.
Welcome & hospitality before me on every side.
Having this life here I pray to the King.
To be stretched out in a churchyard with them.
Chorus
# Posted on April 18th 2007 by Sharonski