Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on September 12th 2002 by Miss Lonelyhearts.
This tune has been added to 133 tunebooks.
Also known as Early Breakfast, Miss Lyon's, Miss Lyon's Fancy, Over The Hill, Sonny Brogan's, Sunny Brogan's Favourite, Up Against The Bachelon, Up Against The Bauchalawns, Up Against The Boughalauns, Up Against The Buachalauns, Up Against The Buachalawns, Up Against The Buachaláns, Up Against The Buchalawns.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Noel Hill's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
|:D2 FA DAFA|dfed cABc|d2 cA (3Bcd AF|
GBAF GFEF|D2 FA DAFA|dfed cABc|
d2 cA (3Bcd AF|1 GBAG FDDE:|2 GBAG FDDf||
|:a2 fa dafa|gfed BdAf|a2 fa dafa|
bgeg fddf|a2 fa dafa|gfed BdAf|
afec dBAF|1 GBAG FDDf:|2 GBAF GFEF||
I learned this off a borrowed tape recording of a festival session from the East U.S. coast. A banjo (I believe it's Mick Moloney) kicks it off...I've left out most of the triplets he throws into the tune.
It's pretty straightforward, except for those |a2 fa dafa| phrases that require fiddlers to cover one or two strings precisely in quick order. Until you get the swing of it, you might find it easier to play those bars as |a2 fa defa|...a way to gradually get used to the idea.
My favorite phrase in the whole tune is the little turn |GBAF GFEF| that brings you back down to the D2. For me, sometimes all it takes is a handful of notes to set a tune in my mind, and then the rest of it blossoms.
# Posted on September 12th 2002 by Miss Lonelyhearts
"Noel Hill's"
Recorde by the Eamonn Ceannt Ceili Band & the Chieftains (7?) as "Up Against The Buchalawns"
# Posted on September 13th 2002 by Kenny
Ah, now that you mention it, yes, this does also go by that name. Dervish recorded it on Harmony Hill as "Up Against the Boughalauns."
# Posted on September 13th 2002 by Miss Lonelyhearts
Noel Hill's
Mick Moloney recorded this on "Strings Attached" and called it Miss Lyon's Fancy (a name I believe he got from Martin Mulvihill), Sully & John Keenan recorded it on "Dublin Banjos" as The Knocknagree and Noel Hill & Tony McMahon recorded it on their album, "In Knocknagree", it's track 13, first tune (Limerick Lassies), which it's not, at least to my knowledge. There are a few dubious names on their other album too. I've also heard other names for it, but off hand I can't think of them.
John
# Posted on September 16th 2002 by banjowalsh
Over the hills
thats what they call this tune in clare possibly
# Posted on December 2nd 2002 by timo
James Morrison recorded this as Miss Lyon's Fancy in the 1920's, it is transcribed in Ceol Rince III and is on the new From Ballymote to Brooklyn CD.
# Posted on August 31st 2004 by Kevin Rietmann
Up Against the Buachalawns
Some people play the tune as "The New-Mown Meadows." Isn't it a mistake?
# Posted on October 3rd 2005 by slainte
Slainte:
The confusion comes from the fact that Noel Hill & Tony McMahon (as mentioned above by 'banjowalsh') recorded it on I Gnoc na Grai - the track names given in the sleeve notes only list one tune in each of the sets, and there are no further notes given as to each of the tunes.
However somebody went to the trouble in the 'Recordings' section here to identify each of the tunes, so you can the complete tracklist:
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/904
Funny enough this particular tune (Miss Lyon's Fancy) was mis-named "Limerick Lassies" in that track listing (as was pointed out). To come round to your original question, The New Mown Meadow is the tune they play after Miss Lyon's Fancy. I imagine people probably just lumped the two tunes together for years and gave The New Mown Meadow as the name, not knowing which of the two tunes was actually the one.
The New Mown Meadow can be found here:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2706
Incidentally LImerick Lassies (as I know it) would be this tune:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/516
All three are terrific tunes.
# Posted on April 8th 2006 by _Steph_
Now, I see. Thanks, Steph.
# Posted on April 8th 2006 by slainte
Sonny Brogan's Favourite
I believe this is the tune called "Sonny Brogan's Favourite" on the album The Iron Man by Tommy Peoples and Daithi Sproule. Perhaps someone more qualified than I am will update the database--here, and under Recordings--if that's correct?
# Posted on April 27th 2006 by tuckered out
Early Breakfast
A version of this tune appears on Frankie Gavin's "Croch Suas E" album and is called "Early Breakfast".
# Posted on November 18th 2006 by 52Paddy
Buachaláns
Go here for a discussion on what buachaláns are http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/5181.
# Posted on April 26th 2007 by Dow