Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on May 10th 2002 by Josh Kane.
This tune has been added to 137 tunebooks.
Also known as Kiss The Maid Behind The Barrell, The Maid Behind The Barrel, The Maid Behind The Barrell, Póg An Ghearrchaile Ar Chúl An Bhairille.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Kiss The Maid Behind The Barrel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
|: DG~G2 AG (3GGG | DG~G2 cAFA | DG~G2 ADFA | defd cAFA :|
dg~g2 aggf | dg~g2 agfe | df~f2 af~f2 | defd cAFA |
dg~g2| agfg | a2ag ~f2fg | afge fde^c | d2eg fdcA ||
|: G2dG BGdG | ~G2dB cAFA |1 G2dG BGBc |
defd cAFA :|2 ~B3G ADFA | defd cAFA ||
|: B3G ~A2AG | BABd gedc |1 B2GB ADFA |
defd cAFA :|2 BG~G2 ADFA | defd cAFA ||
Identity theft?
Curiously enough, Frankie Gavin's Frankie Goes to Town has a track he calls, "The Maid Behind the Barrel" . It is in Em, of course tuned up to Fm as is Frankie's preference.
The liner notes even say it it sometimes called "Kiss The Maid Behind the Barrel".
It is quite different from this tune, a great new version of which is on Danu's "All Things Considered"
Anybody else rune into this?
# Posted on May 12th 2002 by banjorex
Pipe standard tune
I learnt this tune in a pipe lesson (intermediate level) at the Willy weel in Milltown Malbay.
The tune was used to show us to have lot of g roll practice...
It was about this version and under this name. I think it is a Seamus Ennis tune.
# Posted on May 13th 2002 by swisspiper
Another recording
Also check out The Mountain Road, a collection of South Sligo musicians. This tune is the first tune on that album.
# Posted on October 14th 2002 by jerball
Another recording
check out Noel Hill's version on his solo album " The Irish Concertina".
# Posted on March 22nd 2003 by Tommy Og
Don't do think this tune is a version of Steampacket? Or maybe this one came first.
# Posted on May 13th 2003 by slainte
Sorry, I just want to say "Don't you think...?" Also compare this one with Trim the Velvet.
# Posted on May 13th 2003 by slainte
Kissing maids behind stuff
Here's the ABCs for a piper's version that would have all the rolls urs is talking about. It might be Paddy Keenan's version, it's from a tape someone gave me of stuff that was on the radio years ago and it sounds like him playing. Also, it can't be Seamus Ennis' tune, as urs suggests, because it shows up in O'Neill's -- which was published at the turn of the 20th Century. Seamus Ennis was born in 1919.
X:1
T:Kiss The Maid Behind The Barrel
M:4/4
L:1/8
R:reel
K:Gmaj
DG~G2 AG ~G2 | DG~G2 cAFA | DG~G2 AG~G2 | defd cAFA |!
DG~G2 AG ~G2 | DG~G2 cAFA | DG~G2 ~A3B | defd cAFA |!
dg~g2 ag~g2 | dg~g2 agfe | df~f2 af~f2 | defd cAFA |!
dg~g2| ag~g2 | ~a2ag ~f3g | afge fde^c | d2eg fdcA ||!
G2dG BGdG | ~G2Bd cAFA | ~G3A ~B3c | defd cAFA |!
G2BG dGBG | ~G2Bd cAFA | ~B3G ~A3B | defd cAFA ||!
|: ~B3G ~A3G | BABc dedc | ~B3G ~A3B | defd cAFA :||!
# Posted on May 16th 2004 by Phantom Button
Kiss the Maid Behind the Barrel - Peadar O'Loughlin's setting
I heard Maeve Donnelly And Peadar O'Loughlin on Clare fm discussing their "older" settings for tunes on their recording, "The Thing Itself." Here's the abcs for Kiss the Maid Behind the Barrel based on that recording. I find it very enjoyable to play on flute.
X:1
T:Kiss The Maid Behind The Barrel
S:Maeve Donnelly And Peadar O'Loughlin: The Thing Itself
Z:Jack Gilder
M:4/4
L:1/8
R:reel
K:Gmaj
DG~G2 AGGF | DG~G2 cAFA | DGGB AGFA |1 defd cAGF :|2 defd cAFA ||!
dg~g2 aggf | dg~g2 agfe | df~f2 af~f2 | defd cAFA |!
dg~g2 agfg | abag ~f3g | afge fde^c | d^cde fd=cA ||!
G2dG BGdG | ~G2dG cAFA | G2dG BABc | defd cAFA |!
G2dG BGdG | ~G2dG cAFA | ~B3G ABcA | defd cAFA ||!
~B3G ~A2GA | ~B3c dedc | BG~G2 AGFA |1 defd cAFA :|2 defd cAGF||!
# Posted on December 12th 2004 by Phantom Button
There's nothing to beat Mick Mulvey's flute version on "Within a Mile of Jamestown"
...IMHO!
# Posted on December 17th 2004 by Nick Splease
An Ancestor?
The Dogs among the Bushes: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/595
# Posted on December 25th 2005 by slainte
Parts 1 and 2 are the same as the tune "Steampacket" (also know as Sporting Paddy). The other two parts I've never heard before. I'll listen to Noel Hill's version again and see if it matches this one.
# Posted on March 19th 2006 by 52Paddy
The Steampacket also known as Sporting Paddy? I'm puzzled.
# Posted on April 1st 2006 by slainte
By the way, I've been playing the Steampacket as an easy substitute, but I really have to learn this in a couple of weeks. (Actually the first two parts are not exactly the same as the Steampacket.) I heard it played 2 or 3 times while I was travelling around in GB & NI quite recently. Definitely one of classic flute tunes often associated with John McKenna. Cathal McConnell recorded on his first album, Paul McGrattan did with Paul O'Shaughnessy, and Peadar O'Loughlin recently did with Maeve Donnelly. Thanks Jack for their transcription.
# Posted on April 1st 2006 by slainte
*the* transcription of their version.
# Posted on April 1st 2006 by slainte
You can listen to Josie McDermott play this reel on this page: http://www.lafferty.ca/music/irish/flute-geezers
# Posted on April 11th 2006 by slainte
Easier Substitute
The Milliner's Daughter: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1409
# Posted on May 7th 2006 by slainte
Is this related to Trim the Velvet?
# Posted on September 19th 2008 by jakep