RTH – Open Session tune list 2016 04

Reels

McLeod’s set: Ms. McLeod’s - Merry Blacksmith - Sally Gardens

Maggie set: Drowsy Maggie - Morning Dew

Boyne set: Boyne Hunt – Shannon Breeze

George set: George White’s Favorite – Pigeon on the Gate

Silver Spear set: Silver Spear – Father Kelly’s – Miss Monaghan

Julia Set: Julia Delaney – The Glasgow Reel

Dunmore Set: Dunmore Lasses – Castle Kelly

Whiskey Set: Whiskey Before Breakfast – Temperance Reel

Bar Star Set: Maid Behind the Bar – Star of Munster

Brian’s Set: Brian Boru’s March – The Congress Reel

Farewell to Ireland

Concertina Set: Concertina Reel - Come West Along the Road

Music in the Glen

Musical Priest

Jigs

Banish Set: Banish Misfortune – Blarney Pilgrim – Waitin’ For the Federals

My Darling Asleep

Smash set: Haste to the Wedding – Smash the Windows

Geese Set: Geese in the Bog – Connaughtman’s Rambles – Out on the Ocean

Kesh Set: The Kesh Jig – Irish Washerwoman

Lisdoon Set: Road to Lisdoonvarna – The Swallowtail Jig

Kid Set: Kid on a Mountain - The Butterfly

Hornpipes

Boy’s Set: Boys of Bluehill – Fisher’s – Cork (Harvest Home)

King’s Set: King of the Fairies – Rights of Man

Sonny’s Set: Sonny Murray’s (The Wicklow)- Home Ruler – Kitty’s Wedding

Polkas

Soldier’s Set: Soldier’s Joy – John Ryan’s – Girl I Left Behind

Finnish Set: Ballydesmond #2 – Finnish Polka

Airs

Crested Hens

Si Beagh Set: Si Beagh Si Mohr – Ar Niosean

Ashokan Farewell

Planxty Norway

Amelia’s Waltz

Huntington Castle

Songs

The Blackbird with Musical Priest

Star of the County Down

I’ll Tell Me Ma

“Raggle Taggle Gypsy” into “Give Me Your Hand”

Wild Mountain Thyme

Both Sides The Tweed

Rocky Road to Dublin

I Wonder What’s Keeping My True Love Tonight

Lanigan’s Ball w/?

Galway City

The Month of January

The Galway Races

The Maid of Fife

The Lambs on the Green Hills

The Irish Rover

Paper of Pins

Miss McLeod’s – Merry Blacksmith – Sally Gardens Back

Drowsy Maggie – The Morning Dew Back

The Morning Dew

Boyne Hunt – Shannon Breeze Back

Shannon Breeze

George White’s Favorite – Pigeon on the Gate Back

Silver Spear (Set) Back

Father Kelly’s

Miss Monaghan

Julia Delaney – TamLin Dm-Am Back

TamLin – Use Dm chords 1st time, Am Chords 2nd time

Set: Dunmore Lasses – Castle Kelly Back

Whiskey Before Breakfast Back

Temperance Reel (Teetotalers)

Maid Behind the Bar – Star of Munster Back

Star of Munster

Brian Boru’s March Back

The Congress

Farewell to Ireland Back

Concertina Set: Concertina Reel – Come West Along the Road back

Concertina Reel

Come West Along the Road

Music in the Glen back

Musical Priest back

Banish Misfortune – Blarney Pilgrim – Waitin’ for the Federals back

The Blarney Pilgrim

Waitin’ for the Federals

My Darling Asleep back

Smash the Windows Set back

Haste To the Wedding

Smash the Windows

Geese In The Bog – Connaughtman’s Rambles – Out On The Ocean back

Connaughtman’s Rambler

Out On The Ocean

Kesh Jig – Irish Washerwoman back

Irish Washerwoman

Lisdoon Set: Road to Lisdoonvarna back

The Swallowtail Jig

Kid Set: Kid on a Mountain – The Butterfly back

The Butterfly

Boy’s Set: Boys of Bluehill – Fisher’s – Cork back

Fisher’s

Cork hornpipe

King Set: King of the Fairies – Rights of Man Hornpipe back

Rights of Man

Sonny’s Set: Sonny Murray’s (Wicklow) back

Home Ruler

Kitty’s Wedding

Soldier’s Set: Soldier’s Joy–John Ryan’s–Girl I Left Behind back

John Ryan’s

Girl I Left Behind Me

Finnish Set: Ballydesmond #2 & Finnish Polkas back

Ballydesmond #2

Finnish Polka

Crested Hens back

Main body: fiddle, guitar bouzouki, play twice

Bouzouki, guitar solo.. guitar strums first beat each measure:

repeat first three lines of main ending with this line:

Si Bheag Si Mohr Set back

Ar Eireann Ni Neosainn

Ashokan Farewell back

Planxty Norway back

Amelia’s Waltz back

Huntington Castle back

If I Was A Blackbird - Notes: sung __ times, then “Priest” and finish with coda back

Musical Priest

The Star of the County Down back

I’ll Tell Me Ma back

Sequence: intro, vs1, vs2, vs1, break, vs3, vs1 x 2

Verse 1:

I'll tell me ma when I get home, the boys won't leave the girls alone,

They Pulled me hair, they stole me comb but that's all right till I go home.

She is handsome, she is pretty she's the Belle of Belfast city,

She is a courtin' a one two three, Please won't you tell me who is she?

Verse 2:

Albert Mooney says he loves her, all the boys are fightin' for her,

Knock at the door, ring at the bell, and "Oh, me true love, are you well?"

Out she comes, white as snow, rings on her fingers, bells on her toes

Ould Johny Morrissey says she'll die, if she doesn't get a fella with the roving eye.

Verse 3:

Let the wind and the rain and the hail blow high, and the snow comes a travelin' through the sky,

She's as sweet as an apple pie, she'll get her own lad by and by,

When she gets a lad of her own, she won't tell her ma when she gets home.

Let them all come as they will, It's Albert Mooney she loves still.

Raggle Taggle Gypsy + Give Me Your Hand back

Give Me Your Hand – (guitar picks first chords to get ¾ time)

Wild Mountain Thyme back

Verse 2:

I will build my love a bower, by yon clear crystal fountain, And on it I will pile all

the flowers of the mountain, will ya go lassie go?

Break

Verse 3:

I will range through th’ wilds, and the deep land so dreary, and return with the

spoils to the bower o’ my dearie, will ya go lassie go?

Verse 4:

If my true love she’ll not come, then I’ll surely find another, to pull wild

mountain thyme all around the purple heather, will ya go lassie go?

Chorus:

Both Sides the Tweed back

What’s the spring-breathing jasmine and rose ?

What’s the summer with all its gay train

Or the splendor of autumn to those

Who’ve bartered their freedom for gain?

Chorus: (sung after each verse)

Let the love of our land’s sacred rights To the love of our people succeed

Let friendship and honor unite

And flourish on both sides the Tweed.

No sweetness the senses can cheer

Which corruption and bribery bind

No brightness that gloom can e’er clear

For honor’s the sum of the mind

Let virtue distinguish the brave

Place riches in lowest degree

Think them poorest who can be a slave

Them richest who dare to be free

Rocky Road To Dublin back

I Wonder What Is Keeping My True Love Tonight back

Break

Lanigan’s Ball *(1) = two measure fill (optional) back

In the town of Athy one Jeremy Lannigan, Battered away 'til he hadn't a pound

His father he died and made him a man again, Left him a farm and ten acres of ground. (1)

He gave a grand party to friends and relations, Who didn't forget him when come to the wall

And if you but listen I'll make your eyes glisten, At rows and ructions at Lannigan's Ball. (1)

Myself to be sure, got free invitation, For all the nice boys and girls I might ask

And without being asked both friends and relations, Were dancing like bees round the sweet cask (1)

There were lashing of punch and wine for the ladies, Potatoes and cake, bacon and tea

There were the Nolan, Dolans, and all the O'Grady's Courting the girls and dancing away. (1)

They were doing all kinds of nonsensical polkas, All around the room in a whirligig

Julia and I soon banished their nonsense, Out on the floor for a reel and a jig. (1)

How the girls they all got mad at me, Danced till they thought the ceilings would fall

I spent six months at Brooks Academy Learning to dance for Lannigan's Ball (1)

Chorus:

Six long months I spent in Dublin, six long months doing nothing at all

Six long months I spent in Dublin, Learning to dance for Lannigan's Ball

She stepped out, I stepped in again, I stepped out and she stepped in again

She stepped out, I stepped in again, Learnin’ new steps for Lannigan's Ball

The boys were merry the girls all hearty, Dancin' around in couples and groups

An accident happened; young Terence McCarthy, He put his boot through Miss Finnerty's hoops.

The craythur she fainted and roared, "Bloody murder." Called for her brothers and gathered they all

Carmody swore he'd go no further, Till he’d had revenge at Lannigan's Ball

Chorus:

Boys oh boys 'twas then there were ructions, I got a kick from young Phelim McHugh

I soon replied to his fine introduction, And kicked up a terrible hullabaloo.

Casey the piper was near bein' strangled, Squeezed up his pipes, chanter and all

The girls and the boys they all got entangled, And that put an end to Lannigan's Ball

Chorus: note: below measures 1-8 are verse. 9-10 are two measure fill. 11-26 are chorus.

Galway City back

2. “So to me you came a courtin’

My Kind favors for to win,

But twould give me the greatest pleasure

If you never did call again.

What would I do when I go walkin’

Walking out in the morning dew?

What would I do when I go walking’,

Walkin’ out with a lad like you?

Chorus

3. Lassie, I have gold and silver;

Lassie, I have houses and land;

Lassie, I have ships on the ocean;

They’ll all be at your command.

“What do I care for your ships on the ocean?

What do I care for your houses and lands?

What do I care for your gold and silver?

All I want is a handsome man.

Chorus

4. Did you ever see the grass in the morning

All bedecked with jewels rare?

Did you see a handsome lassie,

Diamonds sparklin’ in her hair?

Did you ever see a copper kettle

Mended with an old tin can?

Did you ever see a handsome damsel

Married off to an ugly man?

Chorus

The Month of January back

The Galway Races back

2. There were passengers from Limerick and more from Tipperary,

The boys from Connmara and Clare unmarried maidens,

And people from Cork County who Were loyal and faithful

They brought home the Finean prisoners from dying in foreign nations. Chorus

3. It’s there you’ll see confectioners with sugar sticks and daintes,

And lozenges and oranges and lemonade and raisins,

And gingerbread and spices to accommodate the ladies,

And a big crubeen for throppence to to be pickin’ while your able. Chorus

4. It’s there you’ll see the pipers and fiddlers cometing,

Thenumble-footed dancers, and they trppin’ on the daisies,

And othes cryin’ cigars and lights and bills for the the races,

With the cours of the jockeys and price and horses ages. Chorus

Chorus: With the whack fol the do, fol the did-dle-y id-le ay!

Maid of Fife back

2. Oh, come down the stairs pretty Peggy my dear,

Oh, come down the stairs pretty Peggy – O,

Oh, come down the stairs, comb back your yellow

hair,

Bid a long farewell to your Mammy – O.

3. “I never did intend a soldier’s lady for to be,

I never will marry a soldier – O,

I never did intend to go to a foreign land,

And I never will marry a soldier – O.

4. Long ‘ere we came to the town of Ackerglass,

We had our captain to carry – O,

And long ‘ere we reached the streets of Aberdeen

We had our captain to bury – O.

5. Green grow the birks on bonny Ethen-side,

And low lie the lowlands of Fife-e-O,

Well, the captain’s name was Ned and died for a

maid,

He died for the chambermaid of Fife-e-O!

The Lambs on the Green Hills back

The bride and bride’s party to church they did go

The bride she rode foremost she bears the best show

But I followed after with my heart full of woe

To see my love wed to another

The first place I saw her was in the church stand

Gold rings on her finger and her love by the hand

Says I ‘My wee lassie, I will be the man

Although you are wed to another.’

The next place I saw her was on the way home

I ran on before her, not knowing where to roam

Says I ‘My wee lassie, I’ll be by our side

Although you are wed to another.’

‘Stop, stop’ says the groomsman ‘Till I speak a word,

Will you venture your life on the point of my sword?

For courting so slowly you’ve lost this fair maid

So begone, for you’ll never enjoy her.’

Oh make now my grave both large, wide and deep

And sprinkle it over with flowers so sweet

And lay me down in it to take my last sleep

For that’s the best way to forget her

The Irish Rover back

Paper of Pins back

Boy: I’ll give to you a golden ball,

To bounce from the kitchen to the hall,

If you will marry, marry, marry, marry,

If you’ll marry me.

Girl: I don’t want your golden ball,

To bounce from the kitchen to the hall,

For I won’t marry, marry, marry, marry,

I won’t marry you!

Boy: I’ll give to you a rockin’ chair,

To sit in the garden and take fresh air,

If you will marry, marry, marry, marry,

If you’ll marry me.

Girl: I don’t want a rockin’ chair,

To sit in the garden and take fresh air,

For I won’t marry, marry, marry, marry,

I won’t marry you!

Boy: I’ll give to you a silver spoon,

To feed the baby in the afternoon,

If you will marry, marry, marry, marry,

If you’ll marry me.

Girl: I don’t want a silver spoon,

To feed the baby in the afternoon,

For I won’t marry, marry, marry, marry,

I won’t mar