Danny Boy, When Irish Eyes are Smilin’, Irish Washerwoman.
You can almost taste the green beer.
Tom
Danny Boy, When Irish Eyes are Smilin’, Irish Washerwoman.
You can almost taste the green beer.
Tom
Danny Boy, When Irish Eyes are Smilin’, Irish Washerwoman.
Yeah, that’s what I was afraid of.
You can almost taste the green beer.
Tom
…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.
There is a nice donegal version which I personally prefer over the original.
X: 1
T: Irish Washerwoman (Donegal Version)
M: 4/4
R: jig
K:Gmaj
|: dc | BAB DGB | DGB dcB | cBc EGc | EGc edc |
| BAB DGB | DGB dcB |1 cBc ed^c| dfa g :|2 cBc BGB | AFA G ||
|: ef | gfg Bdg | Bdg bag | fef Adf | Adf agf |
| gbg faf | gfe dBG | cBc BGB | AFA G :||
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. ![]()
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