Love this one. Haven’t heard it in a loooong time and was just reintroduced to it. All my memory (such as it is) has is this catch of the A section (rendered here in ABCs with lead-in thingy).
B l cAA A2b l cBc ABc l BGG edc l (3Bcd B GAB l cAA A2G l EDE AGE l DED AGE l DED D2 : l
Name(s)? B section? Dots? MP3s? YouTube? Versions? Provenance? Juicy tidbits? I’m on a MISSION.
Nano, are those C-nats or C-sharps? It seems to start in A-something, then resolve into D-something. Pretty odd. It reminds me a bit of Contentment is Wealth, but that’s not it.
Oops. Cnats, they are. It’s a coolly modal chune in the A section in particular: from a backup standpoint, in basic terms (mine, anyway 
) it starts in Am, shifts to Gmaj, back to Am, optionally shifts again to Gmaj if you like, and ends in D (majorish). Arguably the Am backups could be instead C or D if you want, but for me, doing it in Am works very well and underscores the potential obliqueness of the melody all the more. Very tasty.
The A section is odd. Moody and opaque, and I get the impression it prefers to be played slowly/deliberately. Can’t recall if the B section is mainly in A major/minor/mixollaneous or, perhaps more logically, D-something. In that instance there would be a good case for it being originally a piper’s tune.
Anyway, if nothing turns up here today, I’ve got a mini-session later on today where I should be able to catch more of it, or at least the name. I’ve got two fiddlers tussling over who got theirs from the better version. Nyuk.
It sounds to be a good flute tune indeed.
Sure looks like a different-key version of Contentment is Wealth to me, though CIW doesn’t shift to the major in the B part, does it? But it’s the closest I can think of.
X: 1
T:Contentment is Wealth
S:Trad, arr. Paddy O’Brien
R:jig
E:11
I:speed 350
M:6/8
K:D
G/2A/2|GFG Eed|BAB EAG|(4FGAF DdB|AFD Def|
gfe edB|BAB dcd|(4BcdB DFA|GEE E2:|
e/2f/2|gbe gbe|gfg bag|fdd add|fdf afd|
gfe edB|BAB dcd|(4BcdB DFA|GEE E2:|**
The other option I dredged up was a jig we used to play in a set with Sean Ryan’s Castle Jig called The Nightingale:
X: 1
T:The Nightingale
C:Sean Ryan
B:(p. 13 in “The Hidden Ireland”
D:first recorded by Paddy Canny and P.J. Hayes on their celebrated 1960 LP, as “Sean Ryan’s,”
D:also on Bobby Casey’s “Taking Flight.”
R:jig
S:from Mike Rafferty
Z:Tom Madden/Lesl Harker irtrad-l 2000-12-17
M:6/8
L:1/8
Q:140
K:G
AAG|:EAA A2B|cAd cAG|EDE G~G2|DEF G~G2|
EAG A2B|cAB cde|~g3 ege|1 dBG A2G:|2 dBG A3||
|:aea aef|gdg gdg|aea aef|gfe def|
g2e fed|edB GBd|~g3 ege|1 dBG A2G:|2 dBG A3||
“Tom”
AG|:EAG A2B|cAd cAG|EDE G3|DEF GFG|
EAG A2B|cAB cde|~g3 ege|1 dBG A2G:|2 dBG A3||
|:aea aef|gdg gdg|aea aef|gfe def|
g2e fed|edB GBd|~g3 ege|1 dBG A2G:|2 dBG A3||
(Need to get this one back out, it’s a good 'ern!)
FINALLY, when I was reading your ABC’s as possibly being for a tune in D I was wondering if it was a half-remembered Diplodocus, which is in Amix and thus very shifty in terms of mood. …
X: 1
T:The Diplodocus
O:england
M:6/8
L:1/8
C:Liz Carroll
R:Double Jig
D:Trian, Trian
F:http://ecf-guest.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/home.quicknet.nl/england.abc 2009-06-12 18:31:12 UT
K:AMix
A2B||:cAA edB|cAA ABc|dff ~g3|aee fed|
cAA BAG|EAA AGE|DFF G2A|1 BAA A2B:|2 BAA A2e||
efe e2d|cAB AGE|~G3 GEF|GAG FED|
efe e2d|cAB AGE|DFF G2A|BAA A2e|
efe e2d|cAB AGE|~g3 gef|gag fed|
efe e2d|cAB AGE|DFF G2A|BAA Afg|
||:aAA Aaf|~g3 efg|fdd def|~g3 efg|
aAA Aaf|~g3 efg|fdd e2d|1 cAA Afg:|2cAA A2B||
But nevermind, it’s not that. Anyway, fun wondering …
I thought of The Diplodicus also, which is partly why I asked about the C-nats. 
Thanks, Cat, but no, it’s none of those. One of the fiddlers gave me the name two days ago but I lost it. That, at least, I can remedy today.
Oh, and have no fear as to whether I got it basically right or not: I was just on the phone with the other fiddler about it, and as these things so often happen, there we were, diddling into our phones at each other. That’s the tune, all right. He doesn’t know its name, either. 
But thanks for the kickstart for The Diplodocus! I’d forgotten that one, too, and have been meaning to reacquaint myself with it.
Well, be sure to tell us what it is when you do get the name! And thank you; it reminded me to revisit the Sean Ryan’s set again. Great jigs.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4840
Fixed your abc for you to find it at http://abctunesearch.com/
B | cAA A2B | cBc ABc | BGG edc | (3Bcd B GAB | cAA A2G | EDE AGE | DED AGE | DED D2 : |
THAT’S IT!!! The Humours of Rahey. How do you pronounce that, anyway?
Man, thanks for the cleanup (red). Every time I think I’ve got this ABC thing licked…
Composed by fiddler James Kelly, whose father John was from Rahey in West Clare. Sounds like a piper’s tune, anyway.
I’m always bemused by how little details in memory change a tune’s version in sometimes significant and sometimes not-so-significant ways, and yet one can retain the bones of the tune intact.
After doing a Google search, Rahey looks to be maybe an alternate spelling of Rehy, from the Irish réithe, meaning “ram”. So, I’m guessing “RAY hee”. But a dictionary of mine also has it spelled reithe, so maybe “REH hee”. Hmmm.
Coolitude! Looks fun (sorta like Nico). 
Good catch, Nico. Did you know the tune, or did you have to do some searching?
Talking to youself is a very bad sign, Nano.
I know, I know. Bloomfield has chided me about that in the past, too, and usually I’ve been better about that since those embarrassing days.
I do it often
just too lazy to use the keyboard
mostly
It just occurred to me that that 2nd 8ve B in my ABC “mistake” makes for a decent playing-around-with-the-tune possibility in itself.
What, Nico, you never heard that variation before?
Nope and nope, just plugged the full section of nano’s abcs into Reverend’s search engine and it popped up.
Nano, I also changed your barlines from 1s to |s.
Also, no, I’ve never heard of that unfriendly to pipes variation. Pah!
Ah, OK, neat. I don’t follow TheSession, so the Rev’s fuzzy search site slipped by me.
Doesn’t seem to work with my older version of Flash, though.
Nano’s bar lines are lowercase L’s, not digit 1’s. That L as in Lame.
They’re supposed to be ONES? As in 1? Howzat work? This 1 sure don’t look like this l. “Lame”…I call shenanigans.
One of the fiddlers told me about the abctunesearch.com webite just yesterday - talk about synchronicity! - and mentioned that it was built on the very same programming used for mapping and recognising genomes (!), so it’s totally fuzzy and a world superior to any other abc search engine. He’s a geek, so I have no reason to doubt him on his claims about the programming bit. His praises of it were almost worshipful.
Oh, heck. This is what I get for not reading thoroughly. So, how do I do a bar line, then? I could never find one on the keyboard…must I use a character map or code for that, then?
No no no. They’re supposed to be bar lines, which is the vertical line or “pipe” symbol. It’s ASCII 124, above the backslash key on a standard keyboard.
One of the fiddlers told me about the abctunesearch.com webite just yesterday - talk about synchronicity! - and mentioned that it was built on the very same programming used for mapping and recognising genomes (!), so it’s totally fuzzy and a world superior to any other abc search engine. He’s a geek, so I have no reason to doubt him on his claims about the programming bit. His praises of it were almost worshipful.
http://www.thesession.org/members/display/11048
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/19636/