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Jennie's Chickens

reel

Key signature: Bminor

Submitted on June 12th 2002 by B Rad .

This tune has been added to 606 tunebooks.

Also known as The Flying Saucer, Jenny's Chicken, Jenny's Chicken's, Jenny's Chickens, Le Ree, Le Reel Des Soucoupes Volantes, Miss Monaghan.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

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X: 1
T: Jennie's Chickens
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Bmin
|: f2{a}fg fece | fefa eAce | f2{a}fg fece | fgag eAce :|
|: f{DB}B{d}BA {DB}~B2 ce | fB ~B2 eAce | fB{d}BA ~B2 ce |1 f^gaf eAce :|2 f^gaf eAcA||
|: B2 bB aB^gB | B2 af eAcA | B2 bB aB^gB |1 f^gaf eAcA :|2 f^gaf eAce ||

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Jennie's Chickens sheetmusic
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Jennie's Chicken's

Usually played as a set preceded by Bonnie Kate. This tune is more B Dorian but that wasn't an option, so I sharped the g's in the B & C Parts. The A part is played in true B Minor where the g's are natural. A nice effect for those B's in the 2nd part is to just tap the D with your bow at the begining of the B note letting it ring but not fully playing a doube-stop. I put that in the abc's for the first bar on the 2nd part. All in all it's a nice, easy, straight forward tune that was borrowed from the Scots.

# Posted on June 12th 2002 by B Rad

Michael Coleman

Michael Coleman was the first man to make this tune popular. I have been told that every time he played the tune, he would change it a little bit, which made it very difficult for any one to learn it.

-Max

# Posted on December 4th 2003 by Max Becher

Brad, I'm not sure what to make of the ornamentation in your transcription...

# Posted on April 28th 2005 by Dr. Dow

a relative of sleepy maggie?

# Posted on December 19th 2005 by flamin fiddler

Yes. http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/787

# Posted on December 19th 2005 by slainte

The Hunter's House goes well before this. I think I heard Denis O Briain do that set with some fiddle player I don't know the name of.

# Posted on May 17th 2006 by 52Paddy

La Bottine Souriante

The above band recorded this tune on 'La Mistrine' under the name 'Le reel des soucoupes volantes' (the Flying Saucer). I wonder how it acquired that name...? :)

# Posted on July 11th 2006 by scotchlamb

man sounds great on the flute if you can get past the G sharps ok

# Posted on December 21st 2007 by irishflute93

Bonnie Kate is the best tune to put before jennie's chickens.
This selection was and is used by all the greats including Michael Coleman and Joe Burke.

# Posted on February 28th 2008 by Walnut Box

Bonnie Kate / Jennie's Chickens

Listen to Brian Conway's niece Maeve Flanagan play the classic set: http://www.myspace.com/maeveflanagan

# Posted on August 2nd 2008 by slainte

Very addictive. Nice backing too.

# Posted on August 2nd 2008 by slainte

Ornaments

I know this is years after the fact but I wanted to explain the grace notes that are listed on the transcription: Those low D grace notes are not typos. if your playing the fiddle, drag the bow across the open D only long enough to make it ring then play the B note. That's how Coleman did it on the recording I heard, he also does the same type of thing when playing the Morning Dew, he lets the bow hit the open G & rolls the E note in the begining of the the tune. Careful to be quick about it, or else it comes across more like a double stop.

# Posted on November 24th 2008 by B Rad

http://www.soundlantern.com/UpdatedSoundPage.do?ToId=23189

Last tune of the set (Funny enough, not played with Bonnie Kate)

# Posted on November 30th 2008 by B Rad

Don't miss Matt Molloy's amazing take of Jenny's Chickens on his album Heathery Breeze!
I completely fell in love with it...

# Posted on January 13th 2009 by Othannen

Matt Molloy's take of Jenny's Chickens on his album Heathery Breeze

T:Jennie's Chickens
M:1/8
L:1/8
S:Matt Molloy - Heathery Breeze
R:reel
Z:gian marco pietrasanta
K:BMin
| ~f3e fece | ~f3a eAce |~f3a fece | ~f2af eAce |
~f3a fece | ~f3e~e2ce |~f3a fece | ~f2af eAce |
|: fBBA ~B3e | fB ~B2 ABce | fBBA ~B3e |~f2af eAce |
fB~B2 fB~B2 | fB ~B2 ABce | fBBA ~B3e |~f2af eAcA :|
|: ~B2 ~b2 ABgB | ~B2 AB eAcA | B2 ~b2 ABge |1 ~f2af eAcA :|2 ~f2af eAce ||

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# Posted on January 13th 2009 by gian marco

I love sharon corr's accoustic version of it :

http://sharon-corr.com/download/glastonburyradio/02JennysChickens.zip

I'm currently learning this tune, a bit harsh to play ! :)

# Posted on November 11th 2009 by Amilda

"Jenny's Chickens" ~ Bulmer & Sharpley

"Music from Ireland, Volume Two", page 5, tune #18
Dave Bulmer & Neil Sharpley, 1974
ISBN: 0-9503784-10

X: 3
T: Jenny's Chickens
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Bdor
|: f2 fg fece | fefa eAce | f2 fg fece | fgaf eAce :|
|: fBBA B2 ce | fB ~B2 eAce | fBBA B2 ce |[1 fgaf eAce :|[2 fgaf eAcA ||
|: ~B2 bB aBgB | B2 af eAcA | B2 bB aBgB |[1 fgaf eAcA :|[2 fgaf eAce |]

# Posted on May 8th 2010 by ceolachan

...........and Liz C chasing Bonnie Kate at about 13:27

http://www.youtube.com/user/paulgoelz#p/u/8/UqoE5wu6svU

# Posted on May 13th 2011 by domhnall.

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