Follow Me Down To Carlow

reel

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on May 17th 2002 by Will CPT.

This tune has been added to 21 tunebooks.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Archives #1 by Jean Carignan And Gilles Losier
• Brathar Na NOl by Monks Of The Screw Trio
• Ceol Cill Na Martra by Connie O'Connell
• Inné Amarach by Teada
• Inside Out by Mícheál O' Raghallaigh
• Irish Violin by Jackie Roche
• The Eamonn Ceannt Ceili Band by The Eamonn Ceannt Ceili Band
• The Morning Mist by Joe Burke
• The Old Fireside Music by Mike And Mary Rafferty
• Unearthed by Paul McGlinchey
• Wooden Flute Obsession: Volume 3, Disc 2 by Various Artists

X: 1
T: Follow Me Down To Carlow
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
A|:BGAE G2 ED|EAAG (3ABA GE|DEGA BGBd|
|1 egdB c3 A:|2 egdB A2 Bd|
|:~g3a gede|~a3b a2 ge|dega bgag|
|1 gedB A2 Bd:|2 gedB c3 A|

Follow Me Down to Carlow

I learned this reel from the playing of flutist Mike Rafferty, and it's a far different setting from what I've heard Kevin Burke do on fiddle. If you were to take a trip from Sligo or Galway to Carlow, Burke would get you there faster, but Rafferty would show you more of the countryside along the way.

Rafferty plays this lyrically and not too fast, savoring those long c notes at the turns, waiting to resolve back to G major.

This goes well into Kerryman's Daughter (in C major), and I often follow Kerryman's D with Maid(s) of Feakle, back in G.

# Posted on May 17th 2002 by Will CPT