Bring Her To The Shelter reel

Source: Leitrim’s Hidden Treasure by McNamara Family
Transcription: gian marco pietrasata

This is the same tune as ‘Hand me down the Tacklings’ from the Gunn MS of 1865, included in the book ‘Hidden Fermanagh’ and recorded on the CD Hidden Fermanagh Vol 2, played by Catherine Dunne. The tune was given with 3 sharps (A major) and was recorded in that key, which gives quite a different sound to the tune - which is why it’s taken me so long to realise they are the same tune. thank you Gian Marco for posting this tune.

This is also very similar to ‘The Glen Reel’ as given in ‘The Collected Compositions of Ed Reavy’, though in Gmin:

X: 58
T:The Glen Reel
M:4/4
L:1/8
Q:300
C:Ed Reavy
R:reel
Z:Joe Reavy
N:Glens are not always pictures of springtime
N:greenery. Ed remembers them much as
N:Nora did in Syngeis Shadow of the Glen-
N:"and seeing nothing but the mists rolling
N:down the bog, and the mists again,
N:and they rolling up the bog, and hearing nothing
N:but the wind crying out in the bits of
N:broken trees left from the great storm, and
N:the streams roaring with the rain."
N:Ireland is the terrible beauty of the dark glen
N:in the depth of its wild wind and storm.
K:Bb
GF|:DGGA B2 AG|Agfd cAGF|DGGA B2 AG|AdcA AGGF|
DGGA (3BcB AG|Agfd cAGF|DGGA B2 AG|1AdcA AGGF:|[2AdcA AGG^f||
|:gbag fdd=e|(3ff=e fd cAGA|gbag fdd^c|dg^fa gfga|
(3bag (3ag^f gfd_e|(3=ff=e fd cAGF|DGGA B2 AG|1AdcA AGG^f:|2AdcA AGGF||

This tune can be found under the same title in Greir Manuscripts.

X:1
T:Bring her to the Shelter
M:C
L:1/8
R:Reel
B:Stephen Grier music manuscript collection (Book 2, c. 1883, No. 270, p. 56)
B:http://grier.itma.ie/book-two#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=55&z=193.5938%2C1504.9461%2C3106.4674%2C1258.8443
N:Stephen Grier (c. 1824-1894) was a piper and fiddler from
N:Newpark, Bohey, Gortletteragh, south Co. Leitrim.
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:Amin
G|EAAB c2 BA|GBEB GEED|EAAB cBce|dBGA BA A2:|
B|cdef e2 dc|Bcde dBGB|cdef edcB|cBAG EAAB|
cdef e2 dc|Bcde dBGB|cBce dBGB|cBAG EA A2||