The Whole Chicken In The Soup

hornpipe

Key signature: Amajor

Submitted on August 29th 2003 by dafydd.

This tune has been added to 24 tunebooks.

Also known as An Chearc Ar Fad Is An TAnraith, Chaming Lovely Nancy, Charming Lovely Nancy, The Hen And All Her Brood, The Hen And All Her Broth, Maggie Pickens, Maggie Pickens Highland Fling, Maggie Pickie, Maggie Pickins, Maggie Pickle.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

Farewell To Ireland CD 2 (Of A Box Set Of 4) by Various Artists
Fonnchaoi by Verena Commins And Julie Langan
Irish Dance Music by Various Artists
Jack In The Box Irish Session by Tionol
Promenade by Kevin Burke And Mícheál O'Domhnaill
Take The Bull By The Horns by Tom Doherty
The Fiddle Music Of Donegal - Volume One by Various Artists
The Gravel Walks: The Fiddle Music Of Mickey Doherty by Mickey Doherty
The Pipers Club by The Pipers Club Ceili Bnad
The Princess Royal: Dance Music From South Armagh by The Nine McCusker Brothers And Hugh Savage
The Wheels Of The World, Early Irish American Music, Vol. 1 by Various Artists

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The Whole Chicken In The Soup sheetmusic

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Highland Fling - with that swing

And a 2-bar second ending for the B-part...

# Posted on June 6th 2005 by ceolachan

"Maggie Pickins" / "The Whole Chicken in the Soup"

Key signature: G Major
Submitted on May 20th 2004 by hetty.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/3041

Hetty's contribution has an identical Part-A with a different take on Part-B... Hetty does not say where he got this one originally, which makes me wonder if it is an English take on this once very popular and widespread tune.

Dafydd's take on this old gem is the closest to how I know it. This tune is also used for a step dance of the same name, not the "Chicken", but "Maggie Pickins" in it's many spellings and pronunciations... I didn't get enough time with the steps to master them, so I've still got that to do... ;-)

# Posted on December 10th 2005 by ceolachan

"Whistle Ower The Lave O't" ~ all in the family

Key signature: A Major
Submitted on August 29th 2003 by dafydd.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2051

# Posted on October 22nd 2006 by ceolachan

Lotsa names

Same as http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3441 ("Chaming Lovely Nancy") from Verena Commins and Julie Langan's recording Fonnchaoi. That title is from a song to this air sung by Dennis Murphy.

The tune is a Munster setting of the tune called "Maggie Pickens" in the north. Settings are in the Roche collection ("The Hen and All Her Broth") and Breathnach's CCE No. 2 ("An Chearc ar fad is an tAnraith," which has been rendered "The Whole Chicken in the Soup")

# Posted on October 27th 2006 by blarneystar

"The Hen and all Her Brood"...

# Posted on October 27th 2006 by ceolachan

Wild that gian notated it as a 'slide', not the first time someone's gone that route with swing. Sometimes the sway takes folks minds that way, sometimes it goes flat and becomes a reel...and sometimes the swing can even be pulled into a waltz...

# Posted on October 27th 2006 by ceolachan