The irish washerwoman

Danny Boy, When Irish Eyes are Smilin’, Irish Washerwoman.

You can almost taste the green beer.

Tom

Yeah, that’s what I was afraid of.

…as it gurgles back up from below.

I haven’t yet gotten it up to a reasonable speed on either whistle or pipes, but I try to use a lot of the variations that are shown in Pat Mitchell’s book, The Piping of Patsy Touhy.

It is a hard one to play, probably because the TV/Hollywood effect is hard to get out of my brain.

I copied your version, Gabriel and will give it a try. However, the time signature looks funny. Jigs are generally 6/8 and this one is listed as 4/4 but prints out as 6/4.

My fault, forgot to change the time signature when I copied the ABC block from session.org. I fixed it. :wink:

Panceltic piper and Weeks are right–it is actually a pretty cool tune, and really fun to play. Just really, really overused.

I feel the same way about Danny Boy. I like the tune (the words are a bit high on the cheesometer even for me); it’s beautiful to play. I’m just sick to death of it. If there could be a world-wide ban on Danny Boy for ten years, it would be as beautiful as the day it was written…

Tom