Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on January 2nd 2009 by Axel.
This tune has been added to 8 tunebooks.
Also known as The Achonry Lasses, The Loughs Of Cavan .
X: 1
T: Acorny Lasses, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
GBAF DEFA|d2cA BGAF|GBAF DEFA|(3dcB cA BGAF|
GBAF DEFA|d2cA BGAF|GBAG FGAc|cBcA BGBd||
g2ag fddf|eccB cdef|g2ag fddB|cedc BGBd|
g2ag fddf|eccB cdef|gaag fafd|cedc BGAF||
From "words and music " by Planxty
# Posted on January 2nd 2009 by Axel
Achonry Lasses
The name Planxty used, and the name under which it is in CRE 2, is Anchonry Lasses. it is however an ed reavey tune: The Loughs of Cavan
# Posted on January 2nd 2009 by <>-_-_-<>
A slip there: Achonry it is.
# Posted on January 2nd 2009 by <>-_-_-<>
Reavy?
There are a few tunes in the Reavy collection for which Ed Reavy's authorship is questionable. Others that are clearly only his setting of older tunes. As Michael Gorman recorded "The Achonry Lasses" in the late 1920s, I would tend to place this one in the latter category.
# Posted on January 12th 2009 by blarneystar