Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on March 20th 2008 by ceolachan.
This tune has been added to 6 tunebooks.
Also known as The Macroom Highland Fling, The Macroom.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Macroom Fling, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: barndance
K: Gmaj
|: (3GFE | D2 D>E G>AB>G | A>GB>G A>GE>G | D2 D>E G>AB>d |[1 g>ed>B (3ABA :|[2 g2 (3edB G2 ||
|: (3Bcd | g2 g>e d2 g>e | (3ded B>G A>GE>G | g>f (3gfe d>eg>a | b2 (3gab (3aba g>a |
b>gg>b a>ge>f | g>ed>B A>GE>G | D3 E G>A (3Bcd | g>ed>B G2 |]
"The Macroom Fling" ~ also played in D and as a 32 bar 'hornpipe'
This melody is familiar, and I'm sure there is another name or association for it but I haven't yet managed to find it. I've known it over time in several flavours...
Matt Cunningham and his ceili band play this a 4th lower, in D Major and as a 32 bar hornpipe. Here's the opening two bars for a take on this in D ~
K: DMaj
|: D>B, | A,>^G,A,>B, D2 (3FED | E>DF>D E>D (3B,CD | ~
|: (3FGA | d3 B A>Fd>B | (3ABA (3FED E>DB,>D | ~
# Posted on March 20th 2008 by ceolachan
"Matt Cunningham's Dance Music Of Ireland" ~ another take on this
298 traditional Irish dance tunes, w/ chords
Dave Mallinson Publications, 1999
http://www.mally.com/
ISBN: 1-899512-45-4
Page 39: "The Macroom Fling" ~ in D Major, 32 bars
# Posted on March 20th 2008 by ceolachan
"The Macroom Fling" ~ sans > & (3
X: 2
T: Macroom Fling, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: highland fling
K: Gmaj
|: GE |\
D3 E GABG | AGBG AGEG |
D2 DE GABd |[1 gedB A2 :|[2 gedB G2 ||
|: Bd |\
g2 ge d2 ge | d2 BG AGEG |
gfge dega | b2 gb a2 ga |
b2 gb agef | gedB AGEG |
D3 E GABd | gedB G2 |]
I also tend to use 'snaps'/< with this one...for example ~
~ D3 E G>AB<d | g>ed>B G2 |]
# Posted on March 21st 2008 by ceolachan
The Coalminer's!
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1617
# Posted on March 21st 2008 by slainte
Also reminds me of the fling "Paddy on the Binge"
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6649/
# Posted on March 21st 2008 by Jason G
Family member . . ?
Sounds like a cousin of 'Johnny will you marry me?'
A nice cousin though
# Posted on March 24th 2008 by Alancorsini