Key signature: Adorian
Submitted on May 5th 2002 by Kurt Franke.
This tune has been added to 127 tunebooks.
Also known as The Green Feilds Of Glentown, The Green Fields Of Glen Town, Green Fields Of Glentown, The Greenfields Of Glentown, Tommy Peoples'.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Green Fields Of Glentown, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Ador
EA,~A,2 E2DB,|G,B,~B,2 G,A,B,D|EA,~A,2 E2DE|GBeB dBAB|
eB~B2 eBdB|AE~E2 DG,B,G,|A,E~E2 E2DE|GEDB, B,A,~A,2:|
|:A2EA cAEA|G2DB, G,A,B,D|EA~A2 GABd|edBA aged|
bg~g2 afge|dB~B2 GEDB,|A,E~E2 E2DE|GEDB, B,A,~A,2:|
|:A2EA cAEA|aged bage|dG~G2 DGBd|gded Bdgd|
e2Be eBdB|AE~E2 DG,B,G,|A,E~E2 E2DE|GEDB, B,A,~A,2:|
doesn´t fit the pipes but i like this tune...
# Posted on May 5th 2002 by Kurt Franke
Green Fields of Glentown
This great reel which has been played by many celebrated traditional musicians, including accordionist Sharon Shannon, is one of the many fine compositions by Donegal fiddler Tommy Peoples.
# Posted on May 6th 2002 by Bannerman
Green fields
Great tune - one of the best
# Posted on May 7th 2002 by bb
Green Fields of Glentown
Agreed. Tommy Peoples rocks my world
# Posted on May 7th 2002 by Jeremy
Green Fields of Glentown - listen to it here!
I discovered you can listen to a great version of Tommy Peoples playing this amazing tune by clicking on his web site
http://homepage.tinet.ie/~logo/thegreen.html
Al
# Posted on May 19th 2002 by Al Baxter
Natalie MacMasters also plays this tune on her fit as a fiddle album. Great tune - just learnt it two days ago of the cd, then found it in here.... *sigh*, must let my fingers do the searching!!
# Posted on May 23rd 2002 by jamiedj
Noticed that there are no Natalie MacMasters albums on the recordings pages??
# Posted on May 23rd 2002 by jamiedj
posted a natalie macmaster recording, "no boundaries", just yesterday
# Posted on June 19th 2002 by no longer exists
The Green Fields of Glentown
If you want to hear a real knock out version of this tune then get a hold of the Frankie Lane recording entitled Dobro on the Geal-Linn label. Rarely have I heard this tune played with such cool swing. Believe me it is polished performance and well worth a listen.
# Posted on March 29th 2004 by Clyens
One of the "Big Reels", surely
From time to time one hears or reads of a special category of tunes called "The Big Reels", reels that carry a particular charge, and make particular demands of a soloist, at any rate, to the extent that the audience will really, really listen to the way he/she succeeds or fails in performing that particular tune. ("Farewell To Ireland" has got to be one of them.) "Green Fields Of Glentown" has simply got to be one of these big reels.
# Posted on August 30th 2006 by nicholas
As played by Howie MacDonald
Heard this great tune on Howie MacDonald's CD "WhY2Keilidh". He only plays two parts, the A pretty much as is and a B part as follows:
A z EA cAEA|G2DG B,DG,B,|A,A~A2 BAGE|edBA aged|
bg~g2 aged|BG~G2 EDB,G,|A,E~E2 (DE2)F|GEDB, A,B,CD|.
It's still pretty darn difficult to play at speed.
# Posted on November 10th 2006 by DonaldK
The Green Fields Of Glentown
The Nollaig Casey version on Donal Lunny's album also has only 2 parts:
X: 1
T: Green Fields Of Glentown, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Ador
D|EA,~A,2 ~E2DB,|G,B,~B,2 G,A,B,D|EA,~A,2 ~E2DE|GBeB dBAB|
eB~B2 eBdB|AE~E2 DG,B,G,|A,E~E2 ~E2DE|GEDB, B,A,A,:|
|:D|~A2EA cAFA|FGDB, G,A,B,D|EA~A2 EABd|edBA aged|
bg~g2 afge|dB~B2 AEDB,|A,E~E2 ~E2DE|GEDB, B,A,A,:|
# Posted on April 16th 2007 by Dow
Liz Carroll played a great version of this on an old recording called Irish Traditional Music In America: Chicago.
She called it Eddie Kelly's, I seem to recall. I still have the LP which I hope to transfer to mp3 format soon.
# Posted on August 30th 2007 by StephenR