Practice set: December 20, 2015

Brian’s Set: Brian Boru’s – The Congress

Song: Galway City

Sonny’s Set: Wicklow Hornpipe – Home Ruler – Kitty’s Wedding

Lisdoon Set: Road to Lisdoonvarna – The Swallowtail Jig

Song: The Month of January

air: Planxty Norway

Julia Set: Julia Delaney – The Glasgow Reel

Song: The Galway Races

Dunmore Set: Dunmore Lasses – Castle Kelly

Whiskey Set- Whiskey Before Breakfast – Temperance Reel

air: Amelia’s Waltz

Song: The Maid of Fife

Bar Star Set: Maid Behind the Bar – Star of Munster

Kesh Set: The Kesh Jig – Irish Washerwoman

Farewell to Ireland (reel)

Brian Boru’s March Top

The Congress

Galway City Top

2. “So to me you came a courtin’

My Kind favors for to win,

But twould give me the greatest pleasure

If you never did call again.

What would I do when I go walkin’

Walking out in the morning dew?

What would I do when I go walking’,

Walkin’ out with a lad like you?

Chorus

3. Lassie, I have gold and silver;

Lassie, I have houses and land;

Lassie, I have ships on the ocean;

They’ll all be at your command.

“What do I care for your ships on the ocean?

What do I care for your houses and lands?

What do I care for your gold and silver?

All I want is a handsome man.

Chorus

4. Did you ever see the grass in the morning

All bedecked with jewels rare?

Did you see a handsome lassie,

Diamonds sparklin’ in her hair?

Did you ever see a copper kettle

Mended with an old tin can?

Did you ever see a handsome damsel

Married off to an ugly man?

Chorus

Sonny’s Set: Sonny Murray’s (Wicklow) Top

Home Ruler

Kitty’s Wedding

Lisdoon Set: Road to Lisdoonvarna Top

The Swallowtail Jig

The Month of January Top

Planxty Norway Top

Julia Set: Julia Delaney – TamLin Dm-Am Top

TamLin – Use Dm chords 1st time, Am Chords 2nd time

The Galway Races Top

2. There were passengers from Limerick and more from Tipperary,

The boys from Connmara and Clare unmarried maidens,

And people from Cork County who Were loyal and faithful

They brought home the Finean prisoners from dying in foreign nations. Chorus

3. It’s there you’ll see confectioners with sugar sticks and daintes,

And lozenges and oranges and lemonade and raisins,

And gingerbread and spices to accommodate the ladies,

And a big crubeen for throppence to to be pickin’ while your able. Chorus

4. It’s there you’ll see the pipers and fiddlers cometing,

Thenumble-footed dancers, and they trppin’ on the daisies,

And othes cryin’ cigars and lights and bills for the the races,

With the cours of the jockeys and price and horses ages. Chorus

Chorus: With the whack fol the do, fol the did-dle-y id-le ay!

Set: Dunmore Lasses – Castle Kelly Top

Whiskey Before Breakfast Top

Temperance Reel (Teetotalers)

Amelia’s Waltz Top

Maid of Fife Top

2. Oh, come down the stairs pretty Peggy my dear,

Oh, come down the stairs pretty Peggy – O,

Oh, come down the stairs, comb back your yellow hair,

Bid a long farewell to your Mammy – O.

3. “I never did intend a soldier’s lady for to be,

I never will marry a soldier – O,

I never did intend to go to a foreign land,

And I never will marry a soldier – O.

4. Long ‘ere we came to the town of Ackerglass,

We had our captain to carry – O,

And long ‘ere we reached the streets of Aberdeen

We had our captain to bury – O.

5. Green grow the birks on bonny Ethen-side,

And low lie the lowlands of Fife-e-O,

Well, the captain’s name was Ned and died for a maid,

He died for the chambermaid of Fife-e-O!

Maid Behind the Bar – Star of Munster Top

Star of Munster

Kesh Jig – Irish Washerwoman Top

Irish Washerwoman

Farewell to Ireland Top