Key signature: Amajor
Submitted on January 9th 2009 by Mix O'Lydian.
This tune has been added to 11 tunebooks.
Also known as An Bóithrín Buí, An Boitrin Bui, Yellow Road.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: An Boithrin Bui
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Amaj
E2|A4GA|B4AG|A4AB|c4cd|
e2d2c2|d2B2A2|G3 AB2|E2F2G2|
A4GA|B4AG|A4AB|c4cd|
e2d2c2|d2B2G2|A4A2|A4cd|
e4ea|e4dc|d4dg|d4cB|
c2B2c2|d2B2A2|G3 AB2|E2F2G2|
A4GA|B4AG|A4AB|c4cd|
e2d2c2|d2B2G2|A6|A6|
An Bóithrín Buí
I've submitted this tune in A-Major, although it could also be played in G-Major.
I believe that the title translates into something like "Yellow Lane" - no doubt an Irish-speaking member will be able to advise.
# Posted on January 9th 2009 by Mix O'Lydian
The Yellow Road
We call this tune which we learned from William Coulter's album Celtic Sessions", simply "the yellow road", but we play it in F.
# Posted on January 12th 2009 by windybaer
It's actually - the (an) little (ín at the end of a word is diminutive) Yellow (most probably meaning Gorse/Whynn) Bothar = Road. Though a little road is/can be a lane. Note; in Ireland we'll still call a little road - particularly if it has grass growing up the middle - a bohareen (pron; bore-een) h is silent.
Bothar = A cow across. 11C Bishop of Cashel decreed if a cow could stand across a road and another cow could pass this constitted a major thouroughfare and must be kept in good condition and taxed to keep it so.
# Posted on January 12th 2009 by Peter O'Connor
Thanks!
Windybaer and Peter O'Connor - thanks for the great feedback.
Windybaer - if it's usually played in F, I reckon that it must be a flat road!
Pete O'Connor - I just love the idea of using cows for measurement - beats the metric system, any day!
Reminds me of furlong (furrow long) = 1/8 mile. Apparently, the longest distance that you can plough in a straight line.
# Posted on January 13th 2009 by Mix O'Lydian