Anyone Know the Name of This Tune?

[River Otter]

I recorded this tune a few weeks ago at a session at The Swannanoa Gathering in North Carolina and I didn't get the name of it. Below is my best effort at transcribing the recording. Does this look familiar to any of you? Do you know the name? Is it old or recently composed, and if so who wrote it? Any help is appreciated.

X: 1
T: Unknown
C: Unknown
M: C
L: 1/8
K: G
R: Reel
S: Session at Swannanoa Gathering Celtic Week 2012
BABd edd2 | edGB AGED | B,DD2 EDB,D | G2GA BAA2 |
BABd edd2 | edGB AGED | EDB,D EGAB |1 cAFA G2GA :|2 cAFA G2 Bc ||
|: d2Bd gdd2 | edBd gdd2 | e2ce aece | (3agf ge fded |
Bdd2 gdd2 | edBd gdAB | c2cB cBAB |1 cAFA G2Bc :|2 cAFA G2GA ||
|: BAGE DB,DE | DB,DG B2AB | cBAG FEDE | FGAB cAdc |
BAGE DB,DE | DB,DG B2AB | c2cB cBAB | cAFA G2GA :|]

[River Otter]

And by the way, I did try to find it on TheSession.org, Norbeck, and Fiddler's Companion and a few other places. Bupkiss.

[Mr.Gumby]

It's a very mangled version of Father Kelly's

[MTGuru]

Looks like a variant setting of Father Kelly's, but I'll check further. What instrument played it?

[ Crossed with Mr. Gumby ]

[Mr.Gumby]

The moment I posted that I knew the one but I can't think of the name straight away. I hear Frankie Gavin, one of the early De Dannan records.


Mulvihill's is my best guess.

And edited to add:

T:Mulvihill's
T:Father Grady's Trip to Brocagh
C:Charlie Mulvihill
R:reel
D:De Danann: The Mist Covered Mountain
D:Arty McGlynn & Nollaig Casey: Lead the Knave
Zhn-reel-222
Z:transcribed by henrik.norbeck@mailbox.swipnet.se
M:C|
K:G
Bd~d2 eB~B2|eBdB AGED|B,D~D2 EDB,D|~G3A BA~A2|
Bd~d2 eB~B2|eBdB AGED|B,DGE FGAB|1 cAFA G2GA:|2 cAFA GABc||
|:d2Bd gd~d2|edBd gdBd|e2^ce ae~e2|afge fded|
Bd~d2 gdBd|d2Bd gdBd|c2cB cBAB|1 cAFA GABc:|2 cAFA G2GA||
|:BAGE DB,EB,|DB,DG B2AB|cBAG FDDE|FEFG A2GA|
BAGE DB,EB,|DB,DG B2AB|c2cd cBAB|cAFA G2GA:|
"Variations:"
Bd~d2 eBdB|eBGB AGED|B,D~D2 EDB,D|~G3A BA~A2|
Bd~d2 ed (3Bcd|eBGB AGED|1 GEDB, DEGB|cAFD G2GA:|2 B,D~D2 EGAB|cAFD GABc||
|:d2Bd gdBd|d2Bd gdBd|e2^ce ae~e2|afge fded|
Bd~d2 gd (3Bcd|edBd gdBd|~c3d cBAB|1 cAFA GABc:|2 cAFA G2GA||
|:BAGE DB,~B,2|DB,DG B2AB|cBAG FDDE|FEFG A2GA|
BAGE DB,~B,2|DB,DG B2AB|~c3B cBAB|cAFA G2GA:|

[River Otter]

Mulvihill's it is! I listened back to De Danann's Mist Covered Mountain and confirmed it, which is why the tune sounded so familiar to me. I guess it's the variation that kept me from getting a hit at The Session. Either that or the ornamentation which is always hard to guess at. Anyways, thanks for the help Mr. Gumby and MTGuru!

[NicoMoreno]

Much better to use a search that is more organic and less literal. The search engine at thesession is literal (as is google). You'd be better off using tunepal or abctunesearch.org.

[kenny]

Didn't the composer Fr. Kelly call this "Derry Craig Wood" - or did that title come from somewhere else ? Like most people, I would imagine, I first came across the tune recorded by "De Danann" as "Mulvihill's", but one of the best versions I ever heard was by Maire ni Grada and the Casey sisters, Maire and Nollaig playing it at a concert at the London Irish Festival in 1981 - pure magic !

[kenny]

Incidentally, this is one of those tunes which can cause havoc in a session, because of the order of the parts. I think the original was as posted by the OP, but "De Danann" started with what is the 3rd part above, I seem to recall. Steph Geremia has a wonderful version of it too, which I thoroughly recommend [ along with the rest of that CD ].