Irish Tunes

[smilnJackB]

I would like to be able to do a set of maybe 10 Irish songs. #It's probably more accurate to say Irish-AMERICAN songs. #Can you give me some ideas? #
# I know Moly Malone, Wild Rover, Whiskey In A Jar, Dirty Old Town, and Gypsy Rover. #So, I need 5 or 6 more tunes. #To be ready by St. Pat's day, I had better start learning them by December. #Thanks. #Jack http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[potatoe]

care to tab out dirty old town for us?

drowsy maggie is one everyone should know, the banshee is another good one.

[s1m0n]

I'm fond of Phil the Fluter's Ball, recorded by the Dubliners but originally done by something like Dan Sullivan's Shamrock Band in the thirties, and The Irish Jubilee, also I think from the thirties, but I know it from a Cathal McConnell/Robin Morten album of (I believe) the same name.

[Martin Jonas]

care to tab out dirty old town for us?
The words and tune are here (http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/pages/tiDIRTTOWN;ttDIRTTOWN.html) (along with just about every other folk song you might want).

Martin

[Jaws]

Bruce Molsky played a hauntingly beautiful version of Green Grows the Laurel at this years Tonder Festival. He also remarked that it was very popular over in the states in the early 1900's (or somewhere around that time. I was born in '84, so its all a long time ago to me)

But seriously, the way he played it put the Andy Irvine version I have to shame, and that's REALLY hard to do. So that's my recommendation

[smilnJackB]

Thanks for the ideas,
# Yes, Martinjonas, that's the song, Dirty Old Town, like I know it, but with a lyric variation or three. #A great song, both Irish and bluesy.
# #Potatoe, I have not tabbed it out, but hopefully you can learn it from the Digital Tradition (AKA Mudcat) site. #I can pick the song on mando and it sounds good. #But it's pretty easy to play well on Irish whistle, so I am more likely to do an instrumental on the whistle. #By the way, that Dig. Tradition site has Irish whistle notation, but it never seems to work right for me.
# #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif Jack