Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on April 29th 2002 by Jeremy.
This tune has been added to 55 tunebooks.
Also known as Biddy The Darling, Rosie Finn's Favorite.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Rosie Finn's Favourite
M: 12/8
L: 1/8
R: slide
K: Gmaj
|:G2B d2g b2g d2B|cBc agf g2d B2A|
G2B d2g b2g d2B|cBc agf g3 g3:|
|:g2b c'2b a2e e2g|f2a bag f2d d3|
g2b c'2b a2e e2g|fef def g3 g3:|
Rosie Finn's Favourite
I learned this slide from The Bothy Band's classic "Afterhours" album.
Matt Molloy plays it with a lot more triplets. This is a very simplified version of the tune so there's a lot of room for experimentation.
# Posted on April 29th 2002 by Jeremy
Rosie's
This one is often played a fourth lower in the key of 'D' as well. Who was Rosie Finn?
# Posted on April 30th 2002 by Mad Baloney
Rosie Finn's
I can see why this tune would be played lower down. It does stretch the fingers a bit.
Actually, I quite like playing this an entire octave lower - something that's possible on the fiddle, banjo or bouzouki. Makes for a nice variation, too, to have just one person playing it lower in a session situation.
# Posted on April 30th 2002 by Jeremy
Funny you say that Jeremy, I always knock it down an octave as well when it comes up in G.
# Posted on April 30th 2002 by Mad Baloney
Beautiful
In my opinion, this is the most beautiful tune ever. And Matt Molloy's playing of it just makes it even better. I have two live recordings of Matt playing it with the Bothy Band, one on Afterhours, and the other on Live in Concert. I learned it from Afterhours too, Jeremy. Paddy Keenan does a really nice harmony part on that album, on the low whistle.
I like to play it in the same key as Matt (G) on the whistle, I like it better that way, but it really is a stretch on the fiddle.
Has anybody ever heard anyone beside Matt play it? Anyone know where it comes from?
-Max
# Posted on June 19th 2004 by Max Becher
Actually...
I have been playing my new Kerry low whistle all night, and I got to playing this tune. I think I'm going to take back what I said earlier. I don't think I do like this tune better in G, I think it sounds great in D too. The lower sound is really cool.
# Posted on July 7th 2004 by Max Becher
Rosie Finn's Favourite
Ceolachan has spotted that a tune I recently submitted is very similar to this:
Biddy the Darling http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7452
Although the B part is rather different, the A part is almost identical.
# Posted on July 6th 2007 by nigelg
You beat me to it Nigel...
~
I'll add those other takes later, rather than first sending them to you under the cover of email... Nice to see that threesome on site here...
# Posted on July 6th 2007 by ceolachan
"Rosie Finn's Favourite" / "Biddy The Darling"
X: 1134
T: Rosie Finn's Favourite / Biddy The Darling
M: 12/8
L: 1/8
R: slide
K: G Major
|: gdB |
G2 B d2 g b2 g d2 B | cBc agf gfe dBA |
G2 B d2 g b2 g d2 B | cBc agf g3 :|
|: -g2 d |
g2 b c'2 b a2 e ege | faf dd/e/f gfe dB/c/d |
g2 b c'2 b a2 e ege | faf def g3 :|
X: 1134
T: Rosie Finn's Favourite / Biddy The Darling
M: 12/8
L: 1/8
R: slide
K: D Major
|: A |
D2 F A2 d f2 d A2 F | GFG edc dcB AFE |
D2 F A2 d f2 d A2 F |GBG e>dc d3 d2 :|
|: A |
d2 f g2 f e2 B BdB | cec ABc dcB AFA |
d2 f g2 f e2 B BdB | cc/c/c ABc d3 d2 :|
# Posted on July 7th 2007 by ceolachan
1970s ~ "Gan Ainm" = "Rosie Finn's Favourite" / "Biddy The Darling"
I have this recorded in an old notebood of mine as a tune I learned in the early 70s. I also found it in the following book, and that close to my own notes, 'old ABCs', that for reference I'll add that published version, 1974, next...
"Music From Ireland, Volume Four"
compiled by Dave Bulmer & Neil Sharpley
Page 31, tune #86
X: 86
T: Gan Ainm
S: Bulmer & Sharpley's "Music of Ireland, Volume Four"
S: an alternate source ~ my own ABCs, early 70's, with slight differences...
N: I have some vague memory of also seeing this in a collection or Irish music published in Australia around the same time? However, I don't have my copy at hand to confirm that...
M: 12/8
L: 1/8
R: slide
K: G Major
|: G2 B d2 g b2 g d2 B | cBc agf gfe dBA |
G2 B d2 g b2 g d2 B | cBc agf g3 g3 :|
|: g2 b c'2 b a2 e e2 g | f2 a abg f2 d d3 |
g2 b c'2 b a2 e e2 g | faf def g3 g3 :|
# Posted on July 7th 2007 by ceolachan
"The Rideau Lake Jig" ~ a Canadian cousin, the A-part anyway
Key signature: D Major
Submitted on September 11th 2007 by ceolachan.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7698
# Posted on September 11th 2007 by ceolachan