Stor mo chroi

Uilleann Pipes
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Anybodywant to throw me an abc or sheet music of this lovely air.
Paddy Keenan plays it on a Bothy Band. Paddy played it live in my kitchen last week and I am now obssessing the tune. Sorry for the casual name drop but I couldnt resist :smiley:
I’d send a photo but dont know how?? :cry:

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So - how does one get Paddy Keenan to play in his kitchen?

Sorry, my attempts at finding an ABC drew a blank.

Brian

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I had done a house concert with Paddy and Tommy O’Sullivan back in FEb and we hosted a small session whil he was passing through NJ last week. We were truly honored. This time he stayed a couple of days and I was able to pick his brain some.
i had found the song Stor mo chroi but it must be in a different key like G I think that Paddy play
I only say that because the cnat pops up all over and thats my dummy way of guessing the key signature. :confused:

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Isn’t Stor Mo Chroi on one of the newer Chieftains albums? (Me & my damned Fuzzy memory) I think Sting sings it with them. It’s pretty, but it sounds a lot like a combo of Marries Wedding and The Parting Glass.

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The song Sting sings with The Chieftains is Mo Ghile Mear on The Long Black veil. A very old Jacobite song, althoug Sting does sing it in translatio bar the the chorus.
I was trying to find a copy of A Stor Mo Chroi a while ago on the net with no luck. One of my faorite recordings of it though has to be Iarla O Lionairds rendition on the Aisling Ceol album with Tony McMahon and Noel Hill, shame about the piano though! :smiley:
Pol.

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One website says, A Stor Mo Chroi = Treasure of my Heart
another website says: darling of my heart

mp3 and words:
http://www.chivalry.com/cantaria/lyrics/a-stor-mo-chroi.html

Irish tune finder listing:
http://www.irishtune.info/tune/41/

Guitar tabs (for purchase) here:
http://www.guitargallerymusic.com/celticgm.htm
it’s about the 7th one down the list

Buy the Chieftains CD online:
http://www.musicexpert.com/8910542.html

Short mp3 with sheet music (in Finale notepad format):
http://www.anuna.ie/sheet_music/choral_arrangements.htm

Dicky Deegan recorded it:
http://artists.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/Dicky_Deegan/


I didn’t seen any midi files or sheet music.

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Sorry! I told you my memory was bad :slight_smile: Thank you for the correction.
Marc

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“Ireland’s Best Slow Airs” from Walton’s (available from Mel Bay in the U.S. for $15.95) ISBN 082-91-857200 has it.

:sunglasses:

Jeff

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No sheet? Oh well ..thanks to all for looking I have broken down and purchase the walton air book and cd combo
In the mean time my ear will have to do. :angry:

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has anyone heard this tune on the CD “By the River of Gems” by Dicky Deegan? What do people think?

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I thought it was the best I had ever heard . Well worth the price of the c . d. :slight_smile: :slight_smile:
Tok . :slight_smile: .
. Of course , it was played in c# . I think ,
tok . :slight_smile:

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I thought it was the best too. All the airs on that CD are beautiful!

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Dicky is great piper
 oozing Ennis :slight_smile:

PD.

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It’s also on “An Phib”, 2 versions, tracks 1 and 16. I prefer track 1.

Cheers, Mac

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I love the way he can combine measured, tight, articulate chanter work and rhyhmically solid regulator vamping, it’s very sweet and old-fashioned, kind of like a steam calliope but much, much nicer-sounding. It’s a real change from superband piping.

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I don’t know, but i do know that it is in the latest Lunacy album (Redwood).

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Chieftains ‘tears of stone’ CD

http://www.musicexpert.com/8910542.html

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Finally got some more info on this tune. (Thanks to Pascale Schwinte in Strasbourg).
Hope this helps, (abcs included!)
Sorry about the length of this!
Pol.


A STOR MO CHROI

TREOIR version:

A stóir mo chroi, when you’re far away
From the home that you’ll soon be leaving
'Tis many a time by night and by day
That your heart will be sorely grieving
Though the stranger’s land may be bright and fair
And rich in her treasures golden
You’ll pine, I know, for the long ago
And the love that is never olden

A stóir mo chroi, in the stranger’s land
There is plenty of wealth and wailing
Whilst gems adorn the great and the grand
There are faces with hunger paling
The road may be weary and hard to tread
And the lights of their cities blind you
Oh return, a stór, to Erin’s shore
And the loved ones you’ve left behind you

A stĂłir mo chroi, when the evening mist
Over mountain and meadow is falling
Won’t you turn away from the throng and list
And maybe you’ll hear me calling
For the sound of a voice that is sorely missed
For somebody’s speedy returning
A rĂșn, a rĂșn, won’t you come back soon
To the one that will always love you

Notes from Terry Moylan:

“A Stóir mo Chroí” was written by Brian O’Higgins and published in his
collection of Poetry “Songs of Glen na Mona” in June 1929. The air
prescribed in that collection for the song is “Bruach na Carraigh Báine”.

The following is the text in the collection. There are several small
differences from the now-traditional version

A stoir mo chroidhe! when you’re far away
From the home that you’ll soon be leaving;
‘Tis many a time, thro’ the night and day,
That your heart will be sorely grieving.
The strangers’ land may be bright and fair,
And rich in its treasures golden;
But you’ll pine, I know, for the long ago,
And the love that was never olden.

A stoir mo chroidhe! in the strangers’ land
There is plenty of wealth, and wailing;
Where gems adorn the great and grand,
There are faces with hunger paling.
Where the road is toilsome and hard to tread,
When the lights of their cities blind you,
O, turn, a stoir, to the Irish shore
And the ones that you leave behind you.

A stoir mo chroidhe! when the evening mist
O’er mountain and sea is falling,
Then turn away from the throng, and list,
And maybe you’ll hear me calling-
For the sound of a voice that I’ll sorely miss,
For somebody’s quick returning;
A ruin, a ruin, O, come back soon
To the love that is always burning.


X: 002
T: A STOIR MO CHROI
M: 4/4
L: 1/4
Q: 100
K: Em
G/A/ | “Em” B/B/ B2 A/B/ | “D” A>F/E// D> B,/D// |
w: A* stor mo chroi when you’re far far a-way From the
“Em” E> F/E// “Bm” D> B,/D// | “Em” E E2 G/A/ |
w: home you will soon* be lea-ving 'Tis*
“Em” B/B//B// B2 A/B/ | “D” A>F/E// D> B/A// |
w: ma-ny a time By* night and by day That your
“G” G F/E/ “Bm”(3DB,D | “Em” E E2 B,/D/ |
w: heart will be sore-ly griev-ing Though the
“Em” E> D/E// “C” G> A/B// | “D” d e "Em"E> B,|
w: stran-ger’s land May be bright and fair And
“Em” E> D/E// “C” G> A/B// | “A” e ^c “D” d> e/d//|
w: rich in* trea-sures* gol-* den You will
“Em” B/B/ B2 A/B/ | “D” A>F/E// D> B/A// |
w: pine I know for the long long a-go And the
“G” G F/E/ “Bm” (3DB,D | “Em” E E2-E ||
w: love that is ne-*ver old-en

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thanks for the efforts
apparently Keenan playes the tune in a higher key like G 
I recd the Waltons book of airs and the notation on the tune is vastly different than the version as played by Keenan on the brown album and on the best of the Bothy band ..here the track is listed only as 
"an Air and long dance
 here is link where you’ll find an mp3 


http://www.paddykeenan.com/brownlist.htm.

Not all is lost though
I have an ear and it will just take longer for me to figure the tune
plus ..i think knowing the song is important to playing the air with correct feeling.

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Not sure what key it’s played in, but A STOR MO CROI is also on Lunasa’s latest album. They have for sale, a book of their music which would have it notated, if they’re latest stuff is in the tune book.

I would think there’s a good chance it is, since the album was recorded over a year ago.

Good luck - it is a lovely tune

  • Ryan