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**Please note that the abc’s in the Fiddler’s Companion work fine in most abc conversion programs. For example, I use abc2win and abcNavigator 2 with no problems whatsoever with direct cut-and-pasting. However, due to an anomaly of the html, pasting the abc’s into the concertina.net converter results in double-spacing. For concertina.net’s conversion program to work you must remove the spaces between all the lines of abc notation after pasting, so that they are single-spaced, with no intervening blank lines. This being done, the F/C abc’s will convert to standard notation nicely. Or, get a copy of abcNavigator 2 – its well worth it.   [AK]

 

 

 


DOW EVERLY [1]. AKA and see "Will Rarie Old March [1]” (Pa.), "Grand March o' Normal [2]” (Pa.), "Governor Jones' March," "Russian March." American, March (4/4 time) or Schottische. USA, southwestern Pa. G Major. Standard tuning. AABB. The tune was named after an old Greene County, Pa., fifer who played it, according to custom if subsequent musicians forgot the original name. The alternate Pennsylvania titles also are titles of convenience rather than the "correct" one. Source for notated versions: Hoge MS (No. 23), Walter Neal (1952), and Steffy (1949) [Bayard]. Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 152A‑C, pgs. 87‑88 (march version) and No. 419, pg. 397 (schottische version). Howe, Diamond School for the Violin, pgs. 29 and 24.

 

DOW EVERLY [2]. AKA and see "Grand/Slow March in the Battle of Prague."

                       

DOWBUSH KOZAK. See note for “Flop-Eared Mule [1].

                       


DOWD'S FAVORITE. AKA – “Dowd’s Reel,” “O’Dowd’s Favourite.” Irish, Reel. G Aeolian (Gm) ('A' and 'C' parts) & B Flat Major ('B' part) [Brody, Vallely]. Standard. AABBCC (Brody): ABC (Miller & Perron, Vallely): ABCD (Miller & Perron/2006). The melody is a setting of the Scottish march/strathspey “The Braes of Bushbie,” perhaps composed by John Bowie and appearing in his 1789 Collection. It was said to be a favorite of the great Scots fiddler Niel Gow’s. Reworked as “O’Dowd’s Favourite” (often called “Dowd’s Favorite”) it was famously recorded by County Sligo/New York fiddler Michael Coleman (1891-1945) in 1921. Coleman himself probably obtained the melody from Sligo fiddler John O’Dowd (uncle of Joe O’Dowd {1913-1987}), who also had emigrated to New York and where Coleman heard him play. See also the related tunes “The Rover [4]," “Dublin Lasses,” “Murtough Mulloy” and “Tee Ree Reel;” they have a similar sequence in the first part. “The Curragh Races” and “The Maid in the Cherry Tree” are also related, and like “Dowd’s Favorite,” shift to the relative major in the second part. Interestingly, for a tune with Scottish origins adapted by Irish musicians as a reel, it has returned to a mostly-Scottish tradition on Cape Breton, where it has entered the repertoire through the playing of fiddlers such as Johnny Wilmot (1916-1993) who was thoroughly versed in both Cape Breton Scottish and Irish music styles. Randy Miller (2006) added a 4th part, “based on the original strathspey,” to the usual 3-part version. Sources for notated versions: Steeleye Span (England) [Brody]; fiddler Andy McGann (1928-2004, New York City) [Miller & Perron]; Hughie Gillespie [Bulmer & Sharpley]. Brody (Fiddler’s Fakebook), 1983; pg. 89. Bulmer & Sharpley (Music from Ireland), 1974, vol. 2, No. 5. Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music), 1977; vol. 1, No. 22. Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music), 2nd Edition, 2006; pg. 64. Vallely (Play 50 Reels with Armagh Pipers Club), 1982; No. 15, pg. 9 (appears as “Dowd’s Reel”). Chrysalis 0698, Steeleye Span – “Ten Man Mop or Mr. Reservour Butler Rides Again” (1976). Columbia CAL504-1, Paddy O’Brien (195?). Folkways FW 8821, Paddy O’Brien – “Irish Dance Music” (1973). Green Linnet GLCD 3105, Aly Bain - “Lonely Bird” (1996. Appears as “Dowd’s Reel,” learned from Sean Maguire). Gael-Linn, “Michael Coleman 1895-1941.” Green Linnet SIF 3006C, Hugh Gillespie – “Classic Recordings of Irish Traditional Music” (1992). Green Linnet GLCD 3127, Sharon Shannon – “The Best of Sharon Shannon: Spellbound” (1999. Learned from Mirella Murrey, Clifden, Co. Galway). Pegasus Mooncrest 9, Steeleye Span‑ "Ten Man Mop." Philo 200l, "Jean Carignan" (appears as the third tune of 'Cape Breton Medley'. Carignan learned his version from the Andy McGann recording). Rounder CD 11661-7033-2, Natalie MacMaster – “My Roots Are Showing” (2000). Shanachie 29002, "Kathleen Collins." Shaskeen Records OS‑360, Andy McGann ‑ "A Tribute to Michael Coleman" (c. 1965).  Topic TSCD602, Michael Coleman (et al) – “Irish Dance Music” (1973. Originally recorded 1921). Viva W103, Sean McGuire – “Irish Jigs and Reels” (c. 1960’s, a reissue of “Sean Maguire Plays,” the first recording of McGuire that Josephine Keegan accompanied on piano). Natalie McMaster – “My Roots are Showing” (1998). Buddy MacMaster – “The Judique Flyer.”

See also listings at:

Alan Snyder’s Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index

Jane Keefer’s Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources 

Alan Ng’s Irishtune.info

X:1

T:Dowd’s Favorite

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

K:G Minor

DGGA B2BF | D~F3 CFA,F | DGGA BABd | (3cBA FA BGAF |

DGGA BAGB | A~F3 DFCF | DGGA BABd | cAfc BGGA ||

B2 dB FBdB | ~B3d cAFA | BABd fdBd | cAFA BGGA | B2 dB FBdB |

BdBd cAFA | GBAc Bbag | fdcA BGBd || g~d3 gbag | f~c3 fgaf |

gddc dbag | fdcd BG G2 | (3gag fa gbag | (3fgf =eg fdcA |

GBAc Bbag | fd^cd BG G2 ||

 

DOWD’S FAVORITE [2]. AKA and see “Tom Dowd’s Favourite.” Irish, Reel. 

                       

DOWD’S (JIG). AKA – “Dan Dowd’s.” AKA and see “The Nightingale [6].” Irish, Jig.

 

DOWD’S NO. 1.  Irish, Reel. Composed by Sligo fiddler Séamus Dowd, son of Sheila and Joe Dowd. Coleman Music Center CHC 009, fiddler Sheila Dowd – “The Coleman Archive, vol. 2: The Home Place” (2005. Various artists).

 

DOWD'S NO. 9. AKA and see "The Cow with the Crooked Horn," "Hugh Gillespie's," "Jackson's No. 9,” "Summer in Ireland." Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard. AABB'. The tune is attributed to Sligo fiddler John O’Dowd, and is often called “O’Dowd’s No. 9.” No one knows if there were eight other tunes or not, and if there were they appear to be forever lost. John O’Dowd was the uncle of Joe O’Dowd (1913-1987), and thus the great-uncle of Seamus O’Dowd of the group Dervish. The tune was recorded in the 1940’s by Donegal fiddler Hugh Gillespie, who may have obtained it from County Sligo fiddler Michael Coleman (Carson, 1996); the former had emigrated to Boston, the latter to New York. Dan Healy and Cierán O`Reilly, on the liner notes of their CD, maintain that the famous chieftains of the O`Dowds from Roslea Castle, who were bards and musicians, are responsible for this tune, despite the fact that the reel form arrived in Ireland long after the demise of the old chieftains and the extinction of the bards! New York musician, writer and researcher Don Meade finds a ‘primitive version’ of the tune in Ryan’s Mammoth Collection under the title “Maid of Athens.” Fiddler James Kelly associates the tune with the playing of renowned accordion player Joe Cooley, from Peterswell, County Galway. Source for notated version: fiddler Jimmy McHugh [Bulmer & Sharpley]. Breathnach (CRÉ II), 1976; No. 165. Bulmer & Sharpley (Music from Ireland), 1976, vol. 4, No. 16. Peoples (Fifty Irish Fiddle Tunes), 1986; 23. Taylor (Through the Half‑Door), 1992; No. 23, pg. 18. Capelhouse Records, James Kelly – “Traditional Irish Music” (1996). CEF 115, Frankie Gavin & Paul Brock – “Tribute to Joe Cooley” (1988). Green Linnet SIF 1058, Matt Molloy & Sean Keane ‑ "Contentment is Wealth" (1985). Outlet 3002, Paddy Cronin‑ "Kerry's Own Paddy Cronin" (1977). Shaskeen ‑ "Atlantic Breeze." Chieftains – “Water from the Well.”

See also listings at:

Jane Keefer’s Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources 

Alan Ng’s Irishtune.info

X:1

T:Dowd’s #9

T:Summer in Ireland

R:reel

D:Matt Molloy & Sean Keane: Contentment is Wealth

D:Davy Spillane: Shadow Hunter

Z:id:hn-reel-369

Z:transcribed by henrik.norbeck@mailbox.swipnet.se

M:C|

L:1/8

K:D

DFAF GFEF|D2FA dABA|~F3A ~G3B|AGFD A,B,CA,|

DFAF GFEF|D2FA dABA|~F3A ~G3B|1 AGFD EDDA,:|2 AGFD EDD2||

|:fd~d2 g2ag|fedf ecA2|fd~f2 gfed|dcde fddA|

dfaf gfeg|fedf ecAF|GABG FAdB|1 AGFD EDD2:|2 AGFD A,B,CA,||

“Variations of 1st part”

|:DFAF GEFG|FDFA dABG|F2AF G2BG|AGFD A,B,CA,|

DFAF GEFG|FDFA dABG|F2AF ~G3B|AGFD EFD2:|

           

DOWN AMONG THE BANKS OF ROSES. Scottish, Air (4/4 time). A Major. Standard. One part. Howe includes the melody in his section of Scottish tunes. Howe (1000 Jigs and Reels), c. 1867), pg. 156.

X:1

T:Down Among the Banks of Roses

M:4/4

L:1/8

R:Air

S:Howe – 1000 Jigs and Reels (c. 1867)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:A

E | A>B c>d e2 ee | B>c d>e f3e | a2 ga f2 ec | A2 B>B c3e |

a2 ga f2 e>a | (ec)BA B2 AB | e3e fefc | B4 A2 z2 ||

                       

DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN. English, Air (4/4 time). C Minor (Chappell): D Minor (Howe). Standard tuning. One part (Howe): AB (Chappell). An English song that gained great notoriety. The ‘dead men’ of the title are nothing more sinister that empty bottles rolled under the table, a metaphor still in use today for empty alcoholic beverage containers. Kidson (Groves) says it dates to the early years of Queen Anne’s reign.  Many songs were set to the air, often appearing on broadside sheets. One was engraved on a half-sheet from around 1715, headed “A Song sung by Mr. Dyer at Mr. Bullock’s Booth at Southwark Fair,” and begins:

***

Here’s a health to the King and a lasting peace,

Let faction be damn’d and discord (cease).

***

The tune appears on broadside sheets, and also in Playford's Dancing Master (vol. iii, c. 1726), Hogg’s Jacobite Relics (1st series) and Walsh's Compleat Country Dancing Master (vol. iii). Chappell (Popular Music of the Olden Time), vol. 2, 1859; pgs. 173‑174. Howe (1000 Jigs and Reels), c. 1867; pg. 45.

X:1

T:Down Among the Dead Men

M:C

L:1/8

S:Chappell – Popular Music of the Olden Time  (1859)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:C Minor

GG|c2 c=B c2 cG|A2F2 G3G|A2 GG F2E2|B2B,2 E4|c3=B c2G2|

A2 GF G2G2|A2G2F2E2|B2B,2 E2||G2|c3=B c2d2|e3d e4|EF GA B2B2|

FG AB c2c2|c4 B4|A4 G4|ed cB c2F2|G2G2 C2||

 

DOWN AMONG THE DITCHES {OH} (Sils Ameasg Na Diogaib). Irish, Air (6/8 time, "lively"). D Major (O’Neill): D Mixolydian (Stanford/Petrie). Standard tuning. AB. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903/1979; No. 295, pg. 51. Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 508, pg. 128.

X:1

T:Down among the ditches, oh.

M:6/8

L:1/8

R:Air

S:Stanford/Petrie (1905), No.

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:D

A | A2d d2e | =c3 A2G | A2d d2e | =f2A A2G | A2d d2e | =c3 B2A |

G2E A2G | E2D D2 || D | D2A A2B | G3 F2E | D2A A2B |

=c2E F2E | D2A A2B | G3 F2E | =c2A B2G | E2D D3 ||

 

DOWN AT THE MOUTH OF OLD STINSON. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, West Virginia. D Major. Standard tuning. AB. John Hartford notes that the area around Stinson Creek in Calhoun County, West Virginia, was at one time a very rough place and best avoided (although it was near Old Laury Hick’s place, where Wilson Douglas used to hear the regionally famous fiddler Ed Haley play). Gerry Milnes reports that source Douglas placed the tune at the Mouth of Stinson Creek in Clay County, and recalled that there was a picnic attended by the ‘woodhicks’ there during which part of the entertainment was a wrestling match. Something went amiss and one of the participants was severely injured and died the next day. This ‘crooked’ tune is supposed to reflect the sadness of the event. Marimac AHS#1, Wilson Douglas. Rounder 0392, John Hartford - “Wild Hog in the Red Brush (and a Bunch of Others You Might Not Have Heard) {1996}. Shanachie Records 6040, Gerry Milnes & Lorriane Lee Hammond – “Hell Up Coal Holler” (1999. Learned from West Virginia fiddler Wilson Douglas).

X:1

T:Down at the Mouth of Old Stinson

M:4/4

L:1/8

Q:105

S:Gerry Milnes

Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz

K:D

||{f}a2d2 a/f/a/a/ ba|

M:5/4

L:1/8

f/ab/ ag/e/ f/d/e/d/ B(A A2)|

M:4/4

L:1/8

a2d2 a/f/a/a/ ba|!

f/ab/ ag/e/ f/d/e/d/ B(A|

M:2/4

L:1/8

A>)A Bd

M:5/4

L:1/8

||ff e/d/B/e/ f/d/B A>A Bd|!

M:4/4

L:1/8

ff e/d/B/e/ f/d/B (A2|

M:2/4

L:1/8

A)A/A/ Bd|

M:5/4

L:1/8

ff e/d/B/e/ f/d/B A>A Bd|!

ff e/d/B/e/ f/d/B A4||

              

DOWN AT THE SEASIDE (Sios Taob Na Mara). Irish, March or Air (4/4 time). G Major (Roche): D Major (O'Neill). Standard tuning. AB. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903/1979; No. 287, pg. 50. Roche Collection, 1982; vol. 3, pg. 81, No. 214.

X:1

T:Down at the Seaside

M:C

L:1/8

N:”Graceful”
R:Air

S:O’Neill – Music of Ireland (1903), No. 287

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:D

DE | F>EFA BAFD | A>^GAB A2 (dc) | B3c dec>B | B4 z2 (DE) |

F>E F(G/A/) GFED | A>F AB/c/ d3c | B>cde “tr”f2 e>d | d6 || (cd) |

edef g2 (cd) | e(d/c/) dB A2 (Bc) | d>cde dcBA | B4 z2 (dB) |

(AF)(ED) D2 (FG) | (A>F)(ED) d2 (fe) | (d>c) (3Bcd (A>F) (E>D) | D6 ||

                       

DOWN BACK O’ SHODDY. AKA and see: "The Bridge of Lodi," “Huntsman’s Hornpipe,” “Lochmaben Hornpipe,” “Lord Nelson’s Hornpipe,” "Nelson's (Hornpipe) [2],” “Saxon’s Hornpipe,” “Worcestershire Hornpipe.” English, Hornpipe.

                       

DOWN BESIDE ME (Sin Sios agus sios liom). AKA and see "Lie up with me and lie down with me." Irish, Air (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning. AABB. Brendan Breathnach points out that this composition is probably the first Irish air with associated lyrics to have appeared in print, along with a relative called "The Bands of Banna" (in Moffat, Minstrelsy of Ireland,” 4th ed., 1897) and reproduces a British broadside sheet of the song which appeared c. 1714 with the note "An Irish song sung by Mr. Abell at his consort at Stationers Hall." Samuel Bayard writes (in “A Miscellany of Tune Notes,” in Studies in Folklore, pg. 160)  the earliest set he saw was in The Merry Musician, or a Cure for the Spleen, Pt. 1, printed in London in 1716 (pgs. 327-28), also labelled an Irish song likewise referencing “sung by Mr. Abel at his Consort at Stationers-Hall.” Words printed with the tune in the London publication, apparently some kind of phonetic version of Irish Gaelic, go:

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Shein sheis shuus lum

Drudenal as fask me;

Core la boe funareen,

A Homon crin a party;

Tamagra sa souga

Ta she Loof her Layder;

Hey ho, rirko,

Serenish on bash me.

***

Several early collections carried the melody, finds O'Sullivan (1983), including Wright's Aria di Camera (c. 1730), Neale's Celebrated Irish Tunes (c. 1726), Thompson's Hibernian Mus (c. 1786), Holden's Collection of Old-Established Irish Slow and Quick Tunes (1806) and Holden's Collection of Most Esteemed Old Irish Melodies, book I (post 1806). A tune by this title has been attributed in some sources as an early composition of the 18th century harper Turlough O'Carolan, though it is not mentioned as such by either Bunting or his editor O'Sullivan. Sources for notated versions: the Irish collector Edward Bunting variously attributed his sources to "Denis a Hempson, Hugh Higgins and Mrs. Bristow, who was taught it by Dominic Mungan" (MS. version), "D. Black, Harper in 1796" (index, 1840 collection) and "from the performance of Dominic Mungan, the celebrated harper the father of Bishop Warburton" (introduction, 1840 collection). O'Sullivan/Bunting, 1983; No. 38, pgs. 59-60.

X:1

T:Sin sios agus liom

T:Down Beside Me

M:C|

L:1/8

S:Merry Musician, 1716, 327

K:E

e4 g4|e4 B4|=d3d d2e2|c4 B4|e2 e2 ef g2|B3c B2 G2|c3B c2 AG|F4 E4||

G3 F G2A2|B4 B4|c3B cd e2|d4 B4|e4 G4 c4 F4|B3c B2 G2|F4 E4||

 

DOWN BY NEWCASTLE SHORE. Irish, Air (4/4 time). E Flat Major/Mixolydian. Standard tuning. One part. Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 714, pg. 179.

X:1

T:Down by Newcastle shore
M:C
L:1/8

R:Air

S:Stanford/Petrie (1905), No. 714

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:E_

G/F/ | E>F GA B2 ce | _d>c BF G2 E d/e/ | (fd) (Bd) e2 fd | B2 ef e3 B/>c/d/e/ |

f>e df e2 dc/B/ | AF EF A2 Bd/e/ | fedc B2 F>A | AG EE E2 ||

 

DOWN BY THE BACK LANE. Irish, Double Jig. Ireland, County Sligo. A Dorian/G Major. Standard tuning. AAB. Source for notated version: fiddler Johnny Henry (b. 1922, Cloonlairn, Doocastle, Co. Sligo) [Flaherty]. Flaherty (Trip to Sligo), 1990; pg. 148.

                       

DOWN BY THE BANKS OF THE SWEET PRIMROSES. Irish, Air (3/4 time). C Major (Joyce): B Flat Major (Stanford/Petrie). Standard tuning. One part. Source for notated version: "...given to Forde by Patrick MacDowell, R.A., the distinguished sculptor: born in Belfast 1799: died in 1870. He gave a great number of airs to Dr. Petrie also, who has published many of them in his 'Ancient Music of Ireland': and many are included in the Stanford-Petrie collection. He was an ardent collector of Irish music, and drew his stores from every part of the country" (Joyce). Source for notated version: “From Mr. MacDowell, Dec., 1859" [Stanford/Petrie]. Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 519, pg. 281. Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 804, pg. 201.

X:1

T:Down by the banks of the sweet Primrose.

M:3/4

L:1/8

N:”Andante”

R:Air

S:Stanford/Petrie (1905), No. 804

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:B_

F BA | Bc/d/ e/d/c/B/ GB | F3 c/d/ ee | d3c B/G/A/B/ | c3 c/d/ e/f/g/f/ |

f>d B(3d/c/B/ GB | F3 c/B/ B/A/G/F/ | B2 f>e d/B/c/B/ | B3 :|

                       

DOWN BY THE OCEAN TIDE. AKA ‑ "Sios Toab an Tias Fairge." Irish, Air (2/4 time, "with spirit"). G Mixolydian. Standard tuning. AB. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903/1979; No. 351, pg. 61.

X:1

T:Down by the Ocean Tide

M:2/4

L:1/8

R:Air

N:”With Spirit”

S:O’Neill – Music from Ireland (1903), No. 351

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:G

D|GA/G/ FG|A=f dc/A/|G/F/G/B/ A{B/A/}G|FD DD|GA/G/ FG|A=f d(3A/B/c/|

dc/A/ GG|G3||d|dd/e/ fg|=fd/c/ BA/G/|G/F/G/B? A/G/F/E/|F2 DD|GA/G/ FG|

A=f d/A/B/c/|dc/A/ GG|G3||

                       

DOWN BY THE OLD MILL (Sios Taob An Sean Muilleann). Irish, Air (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning. AB. Source for notated version: Chicago Police Sergeant James O’Neill, a fiddler originally from County Down and Francis O’Neill’s collaborator [O’Neill]. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903/1979; No. 159, pg. 28.

X:1

T:Down by the old mill

M:C

L:1/8

R:Air

N:”Moderate”

S:O’Neill – Music of Ireland (1903), No. 159

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:G

G>A | B2d2e3d | eg/f/ ed B2 GA | B2d2 g>e dB | A6 G>A | B2d2g2b2 |

agfd g2 f>e | d2 BG A2A2 | G6 || g2 | f>ede fgaf | gfed d3g | fgab gfed |

g6 ge | dBAG G2 G>A | Bg a/g/f/g/ e2 f>e | d2 BG A2A2 | G6 ||

                       

DOWN BY THE RIVER SIDE (Sios Le Bruac Na Amne). Irish, Slow Air (3/4 time). G Mixolydian. Standard tuning. AB. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903/1979; No. 45, pg. 8.

X:1

T:Down by the river side

M:3/4

L:1/8

R:Air

N:”Slow”

S:O’Neill – Music of Ireland (1903), No. 45

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:G

dc | B2G2G2 | F2G2A2 | B2G2B2 | c4 (Bc) | d2g2g2 | d2e2=f2 | A2F2A2 |

c4 dc | B2G2G2 | F2G2A2 | B2G2B2 | c4 Bc | d2g2g2 | d2e2=f2 | A2G2G2 | G4 ||

Bc | d2g2f2 | g2a2g2 | =f2d2e2 | =f2z2d2 | g2f2d2 | c2d2c2 | d2B2G2 | F4 dc |

B2G2G2 | F2G2A2 | B2G2B2 | c4 Bc | d2g2g2 | d2e2=f2 | A2G2G2 | G4 ||

                       

DOWN BY THE SALLY GARDENS [1]. Irish, Air (4/4 time). C Major. Standard tuning. One part. Not the tune usually associated with the words in modern times (which is the same as the ballad "The maids of Mourne shore"). It is an "old" song, well known in South Leinster according to Darley & McCall, was set to the tune beginning:

***

Down by the sally gardens my own true love and I did meet,

She passed the sally gardens a‑tripping with her snow‑white feet,

She bid me take life easy, just as the leaves fall from each tree,

But I being young and foolish with my true love would not agree.

***

Later W.B. Yeats rewrote the lyrics and published them in 1889. Regarding the poem by Yeats called "An Old Song re-Sung" and later called "Down by the Salley (sic) Gardens," Ó Boyle (1976) is certain that it was derived from the lyrical matrix of a ballad popular in the 18th century called "The Rambling Boys of Pleasure," which tells of rejected love but which ends in a spirit of youthful high adventure. It begins:

***

Ye rambling boys of pleasure give ear unto these lines I write,

'Tis true I am a rover and in rambling I take great delight;

I placed my mind on a handsome girl and often times she did me slight,

But my mind was never easy only when my darling was in my sight.

***

Ó Boyle finds a handwritten American version of the song from 1785 (now in the possession of the Baker Memorial Library, Hanover, New Hampshire) which goes:

***

It's down in Sally's Garden, O there hangs Rosies three,

O there I met a fair maid who told to me her mind so free;

She bids me take love easy, as leaves they do fall from the tree,

But I being young and Crazy, could not with her agree.

***

Source for notated version: Mr. James Cogley (Duffrey Hill, Enniscorthy, Ireland) [Darley & McCall]. Darley & McCall (Darley & McCall Collection of Traditional Irish Music), 1914; No. 33, pg. 14. RCA 5798-2-RC, "James Galway and the Chieftains in Ireland" (1986).

 

DOWN BY THE SALLY GARDENS [2]. AKA and see “Maids of the Mourne Shore,” “The Mourne Shore [2],” “Sally Gardens [2].” Irish, Slow Air (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning. One part. Ó Canainn (Traditional Slow Airs of Ireland), 1995; No. 93, pg. 80.

 

DOWN BY THE SEA. AKA and see "Thios Cois Ma Fairrge".

 

DOWN EAST STAR, THE. Fiddler FRLP001, Tom Doucet (Nova Scotia/eastern Mass.) - “The Down East Star.”

 

DOWN HOME BLUES. Old-Time, Country Rag. D Major. Standard tuning. AABCB. Source for notated version: Jimmy McCarroll with the Roane County Ramblers (Tenn.) [Phillips]. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), vol. 2, 1995; pg. 43.

 


DOWN HOME RAG. Old‑Time, Country Rag, Breakdown. USA, Missouri. A Major. Standard tuning. AABB. Christeson reports that the Herman Brothers "Hell Among the Yearlings" (Broadway 8165) is this tune. Source for notated version: Tom and Eva (St. Joe, Missouri radio personalities, 1932) [Christeson]. R.P. Christeson (Old Time Fiddlers Repertory, vol. 1), 1973; pg. 14. Marimac 9017, Vesta Johnson ‑ "Down Home Rag." Lymon Enloe.

 

DOWN HOME WALTZ. Old-Time, Waltz. D Major. Standard tuning. AABB'. Source for notated version: Art Galbraith (Mo.) [Phillips]. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), vol. 2, 1995; pg. 253.

X:1

T:Down Home

R:Waltz

M:3/4

L:1/8

Z:Transcribed by Tony Ludiker

K:D

ABc|d2 c2 (3BcB|A2 G2 (3FGF|E3 FGA|B6|

A3 BGA|F3 FEG|F4 FG|F3 ABc|

d2 c2 (3BcB|A2 G2 (3FGF|E3 FGA|B6|

A3 BGA|F3 FEF|D6|A,2 D2 FA|

E3 FGB|A4 AG|F3 Ace|d4 dc|

B3 cde|f3 fed|B3 gfg|e3 ABc|

d2 c2 (3BcB|A2 G2 (3FGF|E3 FGA|B6|

A3 BGA|F3 FEF|(D6|D3)||

 

DOWN IN ALABAM. AKA and see "Out of the Wilderness," "The White Horse [2]." American. Composition credited to J. Warner under this title. Perhaps the original of the tune now better known as "The Old Grey Mare (Came Out of the Wilderness)," which begins:

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The old grey mare, she ain't what she used to be,

Ain't what she used to be, ain't what she used to be.

 

DOWN IN ROCKINGHAM. AKA and see "Rockingham Cindy." Old‑Time, Fiddle Tune. The title appears in a list of traditional Ozark Mountain fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954.

 

DOWN IN TENNESSEE BLUES. Old‑Time, Blues. USA. Banjo solo by Homer Davenport, who learned it from Bessy Smith. Gennett 3022, and SVT 4009 (78 RPM), Homer Davenport.

           

DOWN IN THE CANEBREAK.  AKA and see “Cane Brake [1].”

 

DOWN IN THE LOWLANDS. Irish, Air (3/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning. One part. "Mr. MacKenzie says:‑‑'This is as I always heard it sung by Irish girls. The other setting I sent you was the Scotch style of singing it.'" (Joyce). Source for notated version: “Mr. J. McKenzie of Newtownards, a great lover of Irish Music and of the corresponding folk songs, sent me the (air) about 30 years ago” (i.e. 1875). Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 320, pg. 150.

X:1

T:Down in the Lowlands

M:3/4

L:1/8

R:Air

S:Joyce – Old Irish Folk Music and Songs  (1909)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:F

AG|F2A2c2|dc A2FA|G2F2F2|F4zc|d2 defe|d2c2A2|c2F2E2|D4 zc|

d2 defe|d2c2A2|F2A2B2|c4 AG|FGABc_e|dc A2 FA|G2F2F2|F4||

           

DOWN IN THE NORTH COUNTRY. AKA ‑ "Farmer's Daughter of Merry Wakefield." English, Air. The air appears in John Gay's Beggar's Opera (1729) under the title "What gudgeons are we men." Kidson (1922) says it was a popular 17th century tune that appears under various names as the vehicle for numerous songs. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; pg. 221.

           

DOWN ON THE BIG SANDY. American, Jig. USA, southwestern Pa. D Major. Standard tuning. AB. Bayard (1981) has identified the 'B' part of this tune as the same as those of "New Rig'd Ship" and the less common "Catch Club Jig," and the 'A' part as the second section of the opening jig figure in the Irish quadrille "Off to (the) Skelligs." Source for notated version: James Morris (elderly fiddler from Greene County, Pa., 1930's) [Bayard]. Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife), 1981; No. 492, pg. 455.

           


DOWN ON THE FLOOR (Síos Air An Úrlár). Irish, Air (6/8 time). G Major/A Dorian. Standard tuning. One part. Source for notated version: "Sent to me ...during 1884 by Mr. Francis Hogan of South Lodge, Brenormore, near Carrick‑on‑Suir, a good musician and a great enthusiast in Irish music and songs. He must have been well over seventy years of age. some of these he wrote from memory, and others he copied from MSS." (Joyce). Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 267, pg. 127.

X:1

T:Down on the floor

T:Síos Air An Úrlár

M:6/8

L:1/8

R:Air

S:Joyce – Old Irish Folk Music and Songs  (1909)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:A Dorian

GEF GEF|G3 G2A|GED EAB|c3c2B|Agf gaa|ged e2d|cAA GEG|A3A2||