You mean we’re not???
~Larry
Right now it’s Chief O’Neill’s Favourite…but it’ll change very soon. I’m probably one of the most fickle person on earth. Which is rather surprising, because I can’t seem to not obsess about Irish music.
Yours obsessively,
Chih
Lately, I’ve been working on a song (not tune, because it has words) called Orphan Girl. The original is a folky, girl-with-guitar number, but a friend of mine figured out the notes, so I’ve been adapting it to the whistle, and making it sound sort of Irish with some cuts and rolls. It’s pretty fun. It’s the first “adaptation” I’ve done.
Junior’s tune and the Earl’s Chair. Over and over again.
With Junior’s tune, the challenge is to breath somewhere so you dont mess up the scale notes at cadence back to repeats or B section.
With earl’s chair, I have the Canny-Hayes in my ears as well as Bobby Gardiner’s version and always wish everybody loved that reel as much as me. I came up with some cool dadgady chords for the other Weekender to play wi’ it too.
It’s Donald Blue and Miko Russel’s Slide from the McGoldrick/McSherry Album and some others on Whistle, Weaving Dreams from a Solas Album on Pipes.
Alexander
Im really enjoying playing Matt Molloy’s version of Crosses of Annagh from his black album. However, I belive the correct title for the tune in actually sligo maid. I think there was just a mistake on the discography. I’ll try to post a sound file soon.
-John O’Connor/The Ode to Whiskey
from Chieftains#7, Fanny Power waltz
Brian O.
[ This Message was edited by: brianormond on 2002-10-21 21:22 ]
QUOTE: “What… are you obsessive about playing these days?”
Othello with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Oh, tune.
Finnegan’s Wake. This song is easy and lots of fun!
Turlough, Turlough, and more Turlough! 
On 2002-10-21 19:38, Stef wrote:
Finnegan’s Wake. This song is easy and lots of fun!
Tim Finnegan lived in Walkin’ Street
A gentleman, Irish, mighty odd;
He had a brogue both rich and sweet
And to rise in the world he carried a hod.
Now Tim had a sort of the tipplin’ way
With a love of the whiskey he was born
And to help him on with his work each day
He’d a “drop of the cray-thur” every morn.
Chorus:
Whack fol the darn O, dance to your partner
Whirl the floor, your trotters shake;
Wasn’t it the truth I told you
Lots of fun at Finnegan’s wake!
One mornin’ Tim was feelin’ full
His head was heavy which made him shake;
He fell from the ladder and broke his skull
And they carried him home his corpse to wake.
They rolled him up in a nice clean sheet
And laid him out upon the bed,
A gallon of whiskey at his feet
And a barrel of porter at his head.
Chorus
His friends assembled at the wake
And Mrs. Finnegan called for lunch,
First they brought in tay and cake
Then pipes, tobacco and whiskey punch.
Biddy O’Brien began to bawl
"Such a nice clean corpse, did you ever see?
“O Tim, mavourneen, why did you die?”
Arragh, hold your gob said Paddy McGhee!
Chorus
Then Maggie O’Connor took up the job
“O Biddy,” says she, “You’re wrong, I’m sure”
Biddy she gave her a belt in the gob
And left her sprawlin’ on the floor.
And then the war did soon engage
'Twas woman to woman and man to man,
Shillelagh law was all the rage
And a row and a ruction soon began.
Chorus
Then Mickey Maloney ducked his head
When a noggin of whiskey flew at him,
It missed, and falling on the bed
The liquor scattered over Tim!
The corpse revives! See how he raises!
Timothy rising from the bed,
Says,“Whirl your whiskey around like blazes
Thanum an Dhul! Do you thunk I’m dead?”
Chorus
The Otter’s Holt. Been playing that tune for quite a bit now, and pretty much happy with the way I’ve got it. The break from the first to the second part can be quite a thrill…I’m starting to comprehend Come West Along the Road. That’ll probably be my next tune, which should last me awhile.
The sunset
“Halfe Hannikin” - heard an orchestral rendering of it that made such a simple tune into a masterpiece.
Bill Whedon
Lord Inchiquin
Anything from Riverdance 
Brent
Sean sa cheo and The Providence.
The One-Horned Sheep. I don’t know why, but it just popped into my head one day not long ago, and I had to start playing it. A bit odd, since I hadn’t actually heard it for some time. The B part is not very whistle-friendly, though. Lots of B-Cnat-D triplets, and also a Cnat-B-Cnat triplet followed by an A. It sure is fun to try, though, and it’s getting a bit better. Besides, the A part is a great romp!
But I’m on the same wavelength with Adams_Gert – the Sunset has been bugging me lately, and that’s my next challenge…
Steven
I can’t stop singing “The Little Whore of Odessa”. Wonderfully catchy refrain, that one. Great drive.
I am learning the Tar Road to Sligo, so I am always torturing my kids with those ascending arpeggios at the end. The Road to Lisdoornvarna (sorry about the spelling)also pops out with an uncanny and annoying obsessive regularity that I used to bestow upon the Swallowtail Jig.