Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on December 3rd 2002 by lazyhound.
This tune has been added to 126 tunebooks.
Also known as The Black-eyed Sailor, Ríl Uí Shiodhacháin, Sheehan’s, Wellington's.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Sheehan's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
|:G2BG DGBG|ABcA BGGB|AEAB cBcA|EAAG FDEF|
G2BG DGBd|cBAB cdef|gedB c2Bc|dBcA BGG2:|
|:g2bg dgbg|gbag fdde|=f2af dfaf|gbag =fdd^f|
g2bg dgbg|gbag fdef|(3gfe dB c2Bc|dBcA BGG2:||
Sheehan's Reel
Great reel - has a similar start though to "the Peeler's Jacket", "the Traveller", "Duke of Leinster" - there may even be others. It pays to sit out the first couple of bars of these tunes at a session unless the musician announces his intentions before starting to play!!
# Posted on December 4th 2002 by Bannerman
Hmmm...I've never heard the setting with the fnats in the B part. Common at sessions elsewhere?
I happen to like this tune played as a slow reel, even with fewer eighth notes, just strolling through the bare bones of the thing. Fiddler Laura Risk does this to great effect on her Greenfire cd.
# Posted on December 4th 2002 by Will CPT
Sheehan's Reel
Will, I forgot to mention this - I've never come across it played with F naturals in the "B" part either.
# Posted on December 5th 2002 by Bannerman
Neither have I.
# Posted on January 19th 2005 by Dow
"New England Fiddler's Repertoire"
by Randy Miller and Jack Perron, first published in 1983.
http://www.randymillerprints.com/fiddletunebooks.htm
Page 131: "Sheehan's Reel"
# Posted on March 9th 2006 by ceolachan
Sheehan's reel as I know it
Here's how I learned this reel:
X:1
T: Sheehan's Reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R:
K: Gmaj
D |:{EF}G2 BG DGBG|ABcA BGGB|AGAB cABG|EAAG FDEF|
{EF}G2 BG DGBd| cBAB cdef|gedB {B}c2 Bc|dBcA BG G2:|
|:g2 bg dgbg|gbag fede|f2 af dfaf|gbag fedf|
g2 bg dgbg|gbag fedf|gedB {B}c2 Bc|dBcA BG G2:|
# Posted on September 7th 2006 by Horse Badorties
James Morrison recorded this as Wellington's in A.
# Posted on September 8th 2006 by slainte
" Sheehan's Reel" / "Lord Wellington" ~ reel
Key signature: G Major
Submitted on March 29th 2007 by usedbullfrog.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7010
"This is just a version of Sheehan's. But it is a nice version."
# Posted on March 29th 2007 by PaddyCmusic
# Posted on March 29th 2007 by ceolachan
So now I know it's name!
This is a tune that seems to be for ever irritatingly etched in my brain. I never learnt it, never liked it, and it keeps popping up when I'm looking for something else/different to play...
A common weed of sessions...
irradicate!
# Posted on May 2nd 2007 by birlibirdie