Gan Ainm

jig

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on March 27th 2008 by ceolachan.

This tune has been added to 15 tunebooks.

X: 1
T: Gan Ainm
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Gmaj
|: E | D2 D DEG | B2 d BAG | A2 B AGE | GEB AGE |
DED DEG | B2 d BAG | g2 e dBG | AGF G2 :|
|: d | g2 g ged | e2 g edB | DEG B2 D | EDB AGE |
[1 gag ged | e2 g edB | DEG BdB | AGF GB :|
[2 D2 D DEG | B2 d BAG | g2 e dBG | AGF G2 |]

Gan Ainm ~ for the moment

This is that familiar that I was convinced the name would soon surface, but alas, it hasn't yet. And trying several bars in several versions and keys online and here, no luck, though a couple of bars are held in common elsewhere, not this combination... I haven't checked everything, and I still am convinced it will just surface, eventually. But rather than waiting forever, for my badly wired brain to juggle it to the surface, maybe someone else out there will offer up the answer. That would be welcome... In the meantime I'll keep hope and keep looking...

# Posted on March 27th 2008 by ceolachan

Hi C, found only a close match for the first two bars in a jig under the title Statia Donnelly's - one in Gmajor.
Good luck.

# Posted on March 27th 2008 by Donough

Thanks Donough, that's one I'd found too. This can be and is also played a step up in A Major...

X: 2
T: Gan Ainm
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Amaj
|: F |\
E2 E EFA | c2 e cBA | B2 c BAF | AFc BAF |
EFE EF/G/A | c2 e cBA | a2 f ecA | B2 A A2 :|
|: e |\
a2 a afe | f2 a fec | EFA c2 E | FEc BAF |
[1 aba afe | f2 a fec | EF/G/A cec | BAG Ac :|
[2 EE/E/E EFA | ceB cBA | a2 f ecA | BA/B/A A2 |]

# Posted on March 27th 2008 by ceolachan

c - great tune! Is there any source you can remember or is it from the sediments in you brain?

# Posted on March 27th 2008 by swisspiper

it's nice! i can hear bits of the blarney pilgrim in it...or is that just me?

# Posted on March 27th 2008 by mehitabel23

"Sediments" - is that like mud and silt and clay? That'd be right - there can't be much else in there! hahaha

# Posted on March 27th 2008 by Dow

Lovely tune - it has a lazy pipiness about it.
There are echoes of Phil Cunningham's 'Waking Up In Wonderful Wark'
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/435
and http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2219

but sounds like an older tune. Perhaps this tune was somewhere in the back of PC's head when he composed WWW.

# Posted on March 27th 2008 by granama

....in which case, WWW is the echo and this is the source.

# Posted on March 27th 2008 by granama

Thanks gang, I needed that laught desperately. With the shaking from the laughter it's all low visibility in there now, the silt rising in a cloud... I haven't given up chasing up a name for it.

I'm glad to see Dow is conscious after the 'Nash', and in obviously good form, if you can call it that. So, I take it things went well for you...

# Posted on March 28th 2008 by ceolachan