Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on December 5th 2004 by Peter Piper.
This tune has been added to 29 tunebooks.
Also known as Gaftai Baile Bui, The Gates Of Ballybay, Geaftai Baile Bhui, Geaftai Bhaile Bui.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Geaftaí Baile Bhuí
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Gmaj
GA|B2A B2D|G3-G2G|G2gg2d|g4dc|B2DG2A|B2BA2G|E4 ((3FGA)|
B2A B2D|G3-G2G|G2gg2d|g4dc|B2DG2A|B2BA2G|G4zd|
d2Bd2e/2f/2|g3-g2e|e2dg2e|d4dc|B2DG2A|B2BA2G|E4 ((3FGA)|
B2AB2D|G3-G2G|G2gg2d|g4dc|B2DG2A|B2BA2G|G3z||
Gaftai Baile Bui
Hello, does anyone know the meaning of "Gaftai Baile Bui"? It's a lovely air I heard on a chieftains CD recently and just wanted to know what it meant.
Thanks in advance,
Jonathan
# Posted on December 5th 2004 by jdave
Re: Gaftai Baile Bui
Something Yellow?
# Posted on December 5th 2004 by uilleann_craic
Re: Gaftai Baile Bui
It means "Gates of the Yellow Town"
# Posted on December 5th 2004 by violynnsey
Re: Gaftai Baile Bui
Thanks, violynnsey. Out of curiosity, what does "the Yellow Town" refer to?
# Posted on December 5th 2004 by jdave
Re: Gaftai Baile Bui
I believe the town of Ballyboy, Clogheen, Co. Tipperary
http://www.ballyboy.com
It is the "Town of the Yellow Ford," though sometimes called "The Yellow Town."
However I'm not 100% sure, because another source claims that this is a northern air. I'll have to ask a more reliable authority on the matter, and get back to you. I'm curious myself! Perhaps someone else on thesession will be able to put this in context for us...
# Posted on December 5th 2004 by violynnsey
Re: Gaftai Baile Bui
Geaftaí Baile Bhuí is a Donegal song which translates as The Gates of Ballybay. A friend of mine ,who works for the Irish Government translating all our Law into Irish, explained that the Donegal Irish for Gates is Geaftaí not Geataí as in the rest of Ireland. I was playing this tune in Vilnius in Lithuania a couple of years back when my hosts, a donegal couple, started singing the song. They said this was a local song for them.
# Posted on December 5th 2004 by Peter Piper
Geaftaí Baile Bhuí ( The Gates of Ballybay )
This Donegal song is also played as a slow air.
# Posted on December 5th 2004 by Peter Piper
Misleading time signature etc.
Time signature states a Waltz but tune written as a jig!? Even the midi plays it as such. The ABC notation can be checked quite simply before the tune is submitted. This is not the first time for this anomaly to occur and I am surprised not to find comment about this in the past. This air is also on a recording by Na Fili 'Farewell to Connaught' 1971. Time signature should be 4/4. A beautiful song air which we play very frequently at ceilidhs for listening to in between dance sets.
# Posted on December 5th 2004 by hetty
Change of Key
Like Jonathan, I got this one of a Chieftans CD some years ago. It's a great slow air and also sounds great in "D" - that is played once in "D" and then repeated in "G" as written here.
# Posted on December 5th 2004 by Bannerman
It is also on Marcas o Muchu's cd "O Bheal go Beal" (1997). Beautiful!
# Posted on December 16th 2004 by cariad