Madam If You Please hornpipe

This hornpipe is notated from the way Julia and Billy Clifford play it on the album ‘The Star of Munster Trio’ https://thesession.org/recordings/1427 . They learned it from Paddy Moloney of Devon Road with whom they played in Cricklewood, London. It can also be found in O’Neill’s Dance Music of Ireland (1907) and under the title “The Rambles of Joe Burke” in the book ‘300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty’ (2006); in the index of that book, it states “Joe Burke used to play this. It is also called “Girl of the Golden Tresses”.”

Watch Mairead Hurley play this hornpipe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQV_bswkom8

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I heard she moved to San Francisco after graduating from DCU.

This is the setting given in the appendix to Maria Holohan’s thesis on the tunes of Paddy Fahey (Univ. of Limerick, 1996). It is one of several tunes included in the collection that are not by Paddy Fahey himself, but which are described as being in the East Galway style associated with his playing. (The chords are my addition: use or ignore as you will).

Here’s a lovely version of this hornpipe, played by Annette Owens:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-rQYV2xRg0

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