Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on August 17th 2002 by granama.
This tune has been added to 79 tunebooks.
Also known as The Humours Of Scartaglen, The New Post Office, New Road, The New Road, The Scarta Glen Road, Scartaglen Road, Short Grass, The Star About The Garter, The Star Above The Garter, Tom Billy's.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Scartaglen, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
DFEF D2dB | cAAG EFFE | DFEF D2dB | cAGE EDD2
| DFEF D2dB | cAAG EFGE | Addc dfed | cAGE EDD2 :|
|:f3e fage | f2ge afde | effe fage |
fdec Add2 | f2fe agef | fdge afde |
fage dfed |1 dcAG EDD2 :|2 dcAG EFFE || "last time" D4z4 ||
This tunes is often played after The Banks of the Ilen. Both tunes are of Kerry/Cork origin and were recorded by Denis Murphy and Julia Clifford.
For me, the first five notes of this tune make it. I remember hearing it for the first time in Friel's pub, Milltown Malbay in 1999. By the time the next tune came around, it had dissolved into thin air (like tunes do), except those first five notes, which stayed lodged in my brain as firmly as a plastic Excalibur in a block of quick-set cement.
Tommy Peoples has a version with C-natural (D mixolydian), called The New Road.
# Posted on August 17th 2002 by granama
I like the beginning DFEF better.
# Posted on August 19th 2002 by SPeak
Sorry, that's what I meant. I've corrected the abc - ignore the sheet music.
# Posted on August 27th 2002 by granama
The new road
this tune is in oneills as the new road but like the tommy people version has the c's a la naturelle. thats the only difference i can see the rest of the dots are basically very similar
any explanations i wonder?
# Posted on July 15th 2003 by timo
The Chieftains
On the Chieftains' "Water From the Well" CD, track 8, 3rd tune in set, it sounds like they play this single (without repeats).
# Posted on September 29th 2006 by crazy_fingerz