The Boy In The Boat

reel

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on September 19th 2002 by OrganicPeatCreature.

This tune has been added to 97 tunebooks.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• At Their Best. Sean McGuire And Roger Sherlock by Sean Maguire
• Cuts From The Turf by Hooley
• Inné Amarach by Teada
• Masters Of The Irish Guitar by Various Artists
• Noonday Feast by Joe Shannon And Johnny McGreevy
• Sé by Lunasa
• Seanchairde by Dermy Diamond, Tara Diamond, Dáithí Sproule
• Stay Another While by Paul O'Shaughnessy And Frankie Lane
• Sweet Nyaa by Moving Cloud
• The Long Trip Home: Traditional Irish Music From D.C. And Baltimore by Josh Dukes
• The Square Triangle by The Four Star Trio
• Tin Whistles by Paddy Moloney And Sean Potts
• Tony O'Connell And Andy Morrow by Tony O'Connell And Andy Morrow
• Tri by Far From Home
• Turas Ceoil by Marcas O'Murchu
• Zoe Conway by Zoe Conway

X: 1
T: Boy In The Boat, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
|:A2AF DFAF | GFEF G2FG | AD (3FED AD (3FED | AFGE DEFG |
A2AF DFAF | GFEF G2FG | ~A3d ~B3d |1 cAGE DEFG :|2 cAGE EDD2 ||
|:(3Bcd ed cAAB | cAdB cA~A2 | (3Bcd ed cAAB | cAGE EDD2 |
(3Bcd ed cAAB | cAdB cAAe | ~f3d ~e3d |1 cAGE EDD2 :|2 cAGE DEFG ||

This tune apears on Paddy Moloney and Sean Potts' 'Tin Whistles' album, after The Connaught Heifers (if my memory serves me correctly). I have just written this out from memory, having been filtered through my ears and fingers, so it probably differs somewhat from the recording which I learnt it from (I've never heard anyone else play it).

AS a variation on the 1st part, bar 7 can be played:

| AFAd BGBd |.

In the 2nd part, bar 16 can be played:

| ~f3d efed | or | fAdf efed | .

# Posted on September 19th 2002 by OrganicPeatCreature

This is almost exactly how I play the tune. Learned from a local banjo player, who, for all we know, got it from somebody who got it from the same recording...

# Posted on April 18th 2003 by pchaffee

Anatomical euphemism

Can anyone guess which aspect of the female anatomy is euphemistically referred to as the boy in the boat?

# Posted on January 12th 2007 by Robert Ryan