Dowd's Number Nine

reel

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on June 14th 2002 by bsykes62.

This tune has been added to 132 tunebooks.

Also known as The Cow With The Crooked Horn, Dowd's #9, Dowd's No 9, Dowd's No. 9, Downe's No. 9, Hugh Gillespie's, Jackson's No. 9, O'Dowd's No 9, Summer In Ireland.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• ...Born For Sport by Paul O'Shaughnessy And Harry Bradley
• A Friend Indeed by Liz Carroll
• A Tribute To Joe Cooley by Frankie Gavin, Paul Brock, Charlie Lennon
• Across The Pond by Kevin Griffin, Roger Burridge And Others
• An Mileoidean Scaoilte by Johnny Connolly
• Atlantic Breeze by Shaskeen
• Celtic Dream by Oisin
• Classic Recordings Of Irish Traditional Fiddle Music by Hugh Gillespie
• Contentment Is Wealth by Matt Molloy And Sean Keane
• Cooley by Joe Cooley
• Easter Snow by Seamus Tansey
• Fiddler's Fancy by Tommy Peoples
• First Through The Gate by Brian Conway
• Forever By Dingle Shore by Slaudeen
• Fortune Favours The Merry by Peter Horan And Gerry Harrington
• Happy To Meet And Sorry To Part by Joe Burke, Michael Cooney And Terry Coleman
• I'm Leaving Tipperary by Various Artists
• Live In Seattle by Martin Hayes
• Past Masters Of Irish Fiddle Music by Various Artists
• Pigtown Fling by Randal Bays And Joel Bernstein
• The Three Sisters by Barry Kerr
• Traditional Irish Music by James Kelly

X: 1
T: Dowd's Number Nine
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
DFAF GFEF|D2 FA dABG|F2 AF GFGB|AGFD EB,CD|
DF F2 GFEF|DEFA dABG|F2 AF GFGB|AGFD ED D2 :|
fd d2 g2 ag|f2 df edBA|fefa gfec|dcde fddA|
dfaf gfeg|fAdf edBA|GABG FAdB|AGFD ED D2 :|

Tune name background

This tune is often attributed to John O'Dowd; the Sligo fiddler. No one knows if there were eight other tunes or not, and if there were they appear to be forever lost. John O'Dowd was the uncle of Joe O'Dowd, and thus the great-uncle of Seamus O'Dowd of the group Dervish.

# Posted on June 14th 2002 by bsykes62

John O'Dowd

Up Arigna!

# Posted on July 15th 2004 by tualha04

Dowd's Number Nine

Here's Brian Conway's take on the tune, transcribed from his First Through the Gate cd.

X: 1
T: Dowd's Number Nine
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
D: First Through the Gate, Brian Conway
K: Dmaj
|DFAF GFEF|DEFA dABG|FGAF GFGB|AG F/E/D A,CEC|
|DFAF GFEF|D3c dABG|FGAF GFGB|AG F/E/D A,CEC|
|D~F3 GFEF|D3c dABG|FGAF GFGB|AG F/E/D A,CEC|
|DFAF GFEF|DEFA dABG|FGAF GFGB|AGFD EF D2 ||
|fd d/d/d g2 ag|f~d3 cdeg|fdAd gfec|dcde fdd2 |
|fgaf gbeg|fedf ecAF|G2 B/A/G FAdB|AGFD EF D2 |
|fd d/d/d g2 ag|f~d3 cdeg|fdAd gfec|dcde fdd2 |
|f/f/g af gbeg|fedf ecAF|G2 B/A/G FAdB|AGFD A,CEC||

# Posted on February 24th 2005 by Will CPT

Dowd's

I have a great version of this in B flat, which I got from Seamus Connoly.

# Posted on April 22nd 2005 by red_haired_girl

A bit of trivia

I was listening to Ceili House, where Joe Burke gave a short introduction to this tune, saying of John O'Dowd that he was a "great fiddle player" "who died in the 1930's in America".

I googled the name and found a thread on chiff and fipple where it was stated that he was a man "of Knocknaskeagh, Co. Sligo of whom Coleman said 'nobody could play the fiddle better than John O'Dowd'. The man was born around 1860."

# Posted on October 7th 2005 by Bleedin' Heart

Dowd's No. 9 = Whiskey?

Harry Bradley writes:

The perceived loss of O'Dowd's other tunes (at least 8 others) was a source of some depression among Irish musicians given the quality of his "No.9". That is, until Ciaran Carson as a result of his literary musings, discovered that the title probably refers to a defunct brand of whiskey! Suddenly it all made sense.

# Posted on October 8th 2005 by slainte

You don't suppose...

Could Mr. Carson perhaps be refering to "Downes No. 9", which is still blended in an over 200 year old Waterford pub?

# Posted on October 11th 2005 by Bleedin' Heart

An Ancestor?

I shamefully admit I haven't learned this great tune yet, but found a similar traditional tune called "The Hornless Cow": http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2825

# Posted on June 5th 2006 by slainte