Key signature: Dmixolydian
Submitted on September 21st 2002 by Netallica.
This tune has been added to 161 tunebooks.
Also known as # Farewell To Connaught, Bobby Casey's, Farewell To Connacht.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Farewell To Connaught
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmix
|: D2 (3FED FGAB | c2cd cA ~G2 | Add^c d2 cd | ed^cd edcA |
D2 (3FED FGAB | c2 (3Bcd cA ~G2 | ABAG EGAB | cAGE ED ~D2 :|
|: eggf ~g2 ed | cded cA ~A2 | eaag ~a3g | eaag edcd |
eggf ~g2 ed | cded dAAG | ABAG EGAB | cAGE ED ~D2 :|
One of the most powerful tunes I know. It opens John McSherry's (and Mike McGoldrick's) recording "At First Light", now without reason. When I first heard John McSherry plays this tune it was really breathtaking.
# Posted on September 21st 2002 by Netallica
"*not* without reason"
please forgive the negligence
# Posted on September 21st 2002 by Netallica
Great tune !!
# Posted on January 15th 2004 by gian marco
It's just pretty obvious that this reel is closely related to Toss the Feathers: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/138
# Posted on December 2nd 2005 by slainte
Interesting connection to American tune "Billy in the Lowground"
For many years I've been struck by a curious relationship between this tune, which in the Irish context is in D Mixolydian, and the American tune "Billy in the Lowground", which is in C. These tunes are not "transposed" versions of the same melodic contour; rather, they are two different harmonic "readings" of literally the same melodic notes. The Irish version hears the tonal center in D and resolves at the end of the low strains to a D, the American version to a C, one step lower. But the high parts are virtually the same notes, with inverted harmonic interpretations of the high G and A.
By the way, I think the commented-on relationship to "Toss the Feathers" is incidental; certainly both these tunes are part of the active repertoire of many traditional musicians and would not be treated as 'variants' of each other; whereas there are several variants of "Toss the Feathers" known and kept distinguished in the repertoire (in D and Em).
# Posted on April 6th 2006 by Mark Simos
An astute and interesting observation, Mark. I hear what you're talking about, but I don't know if I would've ever picked up on it on my own.
# Posted on April 6th 2006 by Bob himself
Lucy Farr
Version of this by Lucy is different from this transcription and she calls it Bobby Casey's.
# Posted on October 5th 2006 by 52Paddy
McGoldrick McSherry Version
X: 1
T: Farewell To Connaught
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmix
|: D2 (3FED FGAB | c2cd cA G2 | Add^c d2 cd | ed^(3Bcd edcA |
D2 (3FED (3EFG AB | c2 (3Bcd cA G2 | ABAG EGAB | cAGE ED D2 :||
|: eggf g2 ed | (3Bcd ed cA A2 | eaag a3g | eaag ed (3Bcd |
eggf g2 ed | (3Bcd ed dAAG | ABAG EGAB | cAGE ED D2 :||
D2 (3FED FGAB | c2cd cA G2 | Add^c d2 Ad | d2(3Bcd edcA |
# Posted on May 31st 2008 by JACKB
Lucy Farr out....
Lucy Farr doesn't play this on 'Heart and Home'. She plays 'The Ragged Hank of Yarn', before 'The Maids of Mitchellstown'. Different tune altogether, just a misapplied title.
# Posted on July 18th 2009 by Robert Ryan