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The Rolling Waves

jig

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on May 25th 2001 by Jeremy.

This tune has been added to 293 tunebooks.

Also known as The Humors Of Trim, The Humours Of Trim, The Lonesome , The Rolling Wave, Sea Image.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

As Long As You're Enjoying Yourself by John Brennan And John McGillian
At First Light by Michael McGoldrick And John McSherry
Beyond The Shore by Deby Benton Grosjean
Celanova Square by Calico
Close To Home by Dónal Clancy
Film Cuts by The Chieftains
Flowers Of The Burren by Barefield Ceili Band
Greenfire by Greenfire
Honk Toot Suite by Éamonn Coyne And Kris Drever
Hubcaps And Potholes by Rachel Hair
In Good Company by Kevin Crawford
Looking For The Early Opener by Dana Lyn
MacMahon From Clare by Tony MacMahon
Maiden Voyage by Various Artists
Miles From Dublin by Dan Carollo
Millvalley by DeReelium
Pigtown Fling by Randal Bays And Joel Bernstein
Playing With Fire: The Celtic Fiddle Collection by Various Artists
Pleasures Of Home by Winifred Horan
Portland by Kevin Burke And Mícheál O'Domhnaill
Rolling Harbour by Elandir
Sea Changes Of The Toucan Pirates by Toucan Pirates
Strange But True... by Takuji Tamura And Yukio Kashiwagi
The Best Of The Chieftains by The Chieftains
The Chieftains 8 by The Chieftains
The Family Album by The McCarthys
The Mulcahy Family by The Mulcahy Family
The Nettles by The Nettles
The Pipering Of Willie Clancy. Vol 1 by Willie Clancy
The Rolling Wave by Cian
Traditional Music On Fiddle, Banjo, And Harp by Oisin MacDiarmada, Brian Fitzgerald, And Michael O Ruanaigh

Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

Usually the titles of Irish tunes don't have any connection to the actual content, but this one really does have the feel of rolling waves.

# Posted on June 2nd 2001 by Jeremy

beautiful tune. I just learned it last night from a mandolin player - sounds just perfect at an easy-going pace.

# Posted on January 23rd 2002 by Kerri Brown

I learned this one off a Chieftain's album, or possibly it was a soundtrack for the documentary they scored for the Irish Horse. It didn't come with a name attached to it then, but this tune is listed as the Humours of Trim in O'Neill's.

# Posted on January 23rd 2002 by Will CPT

duh...someday I'll learn to read the details first....

# Posted on January 23rd 2002 by Will CPT

Rolling Waves - additional discography

With reference to the Chieftains playing this tune, I have it listed as 'The Grey Fox'.

The group Tarras have teamed the Rolling Waves with The Leitrim Fancy on their album "Walking Down Mainstreet". They called the track 'Calico'.

# Posted on May 3rd 2003 by sjt

C natural

On Kevin Crawford's "In Good Company", I think he plays this tune in D mixolydian i.e. with natural Cs.

Sounds pretty good.

# Posted on January 15th 2005 by Jeremy

Mícheál O'Suilleabhainn

has it on piano/harpsicchord on an album he recorded with string quatuor etc...
(sprightly version that too)

# Posted on October 4th 2006 by birlibirdie

At first light - Michael McGoldrick and John McSherry

though McSherry uses |d=cA d=cA| instead of |dcA dcA|
I like the "happy version" more

# Posted on October 16th 2006 by thesheep

Re: Rolling Waves - additional discography

I found this tune squished in between a few other things on a Chieftains track titled 'Sea Image'.

# Posted on February 5th 2007 by nic's collection

It helped me a lot on practicing my first ornamentations for UP. crans on D, cuts at high D...

# Posted on March 5th 2007 by Llibert

The Rolling Waves

As played by Willy Clancy:

# Posted on April 3rd 2007 by nigelg

From Eamon Coyne:

see: http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/18300

# Posted on July 2nd 2008 by mutatis mutandis

Request: Crawford's version ABC score

Hello. Can anybody please post the full ABC version of the jig as recorded in the "in good company" CD?

I tried with the line posted by will CPT but I feel it's not right. Am I wrong? :-)

Thank you all so much

# Posted on July 24th 2008 by Anal

Anal, I posted a line from a different tune that's known as the Rolling Waves. The jig from In Good Company is sometimes called the Rolling Waves, but it's older name is Humours of Trim. And Crawford plays it in Dmix (with c naturals), rather than the D major of Jeremy's transcription. But the D maj version is the one I hear most widely played at sessions.

Kevin's version is more like:

X: 1
T: Humours of Trim
T: Rolling Waves
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: D
~F3 DED|D2 d cAG|~F3 DED|A2 F GFE|
~F3 DED|D2 d cAG|F/G/AF GBG|A2 F GFE:||
D2 d cAd|cAd cAG|F2 d cAd|A2 F GFE|
D2 d cAd|fed cAG|F/G/AF GBG|A2 F GFE||

# Posted on July 25th 2008 by Will CPT

Now how did that happen? I put the key as Dmix (as I mentioned in my comments before the abcs. Sigh.

The point is, Crawford plays this with all c naturals. Meh.

# Posted on July 26th 2008 by Will CPT

thank you so much for posting that!

# Posted on August 12th 2008 by Anal

More about crawford's

hello,
I listened carefully and I don't feel like it begins with a roll on F#. It seems FEF to me. Any opinions?

Thanks so much for sharing!

# Posted on August 15th 2008 by Anal