Flying Home To Shelley reel

There are 6 recordings of this tune.

Flying Home To Shelley has been added to 5 tune sets.

Flying Home To Shelley has been added to 11 tunebooks.

Two settings

X: 1
T: Flying Home To Shelley
R: reel

M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
"G6"DGdG cGBG | "Am7"DGcG BGAG | "Bm7"DGAG BGAG | "C6"DEGD EDB,C |
"G6"DGdG cGBG | "Am7"DGcG BGAG | "Bm7"DGAG "Am"BGAG |1 "D9"DEFD "G"G2z2 :|2 "D9"DEFD "G"GABc ||
|:"G6"d3B AGAB | "Am7"c3B AGE2 | "C6"e3d "Bm7"BAG2 | "Am7"ABdA "D7"BAGB |
"G6"d2dB AGAB | "Am7"cGBG AGE2 | "C6"e3d "Am7"BAG2 |1 "D7"ABAF "G6"GABc :|2 "D7"ABAF "G6"G4 |]

X: 2
T: Flying Home To Shelley
R: reel

M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
"G" DGdG cGBG | "Am7" DGcG BGAG | "Bm7" DGAG BGAG | "D" DEGd "C6"cBAG |
"G" DGdG cGBG | "Am7" DGcG BGAG | "Bm7" DGAG "Am"BGAG |1 "D" DEFD "G"G2z2 :|2 "D" DEFD "G"GABc ||
|: "G" d3B AGAB | "Am7" c3B AGE (d | "C6" Je2)ed "Bm7"BA G2 | "Am7" ABcA "D"BAGB |
"G" d2dB AGAB | "Am7" cGBG AGE (d | "C6" Je2)ed "Am"BA G2 |1 "D" ABAF "G"GABc :|2 "Am" ABAF "G"G2zE |]

Five comments

Flying Home To Shelley

First played this tune with my fiddle group about five years ago! It’s a pretty common in the repertoire these days.

Re: Flying Home To Shelley

Great rendition here:
https://youtu.be/QzIsO076SVQ

play video

Re: Flying Home To Shelley

Notes from The Portland Collection, Vol 2. By Paul Gitlitz of Point Roberts, Washington State USA.
Sylvia Miskoe, Concord NH USA

Flying Home To Shelley, X:2

My own version for the pipes with some less fancy chords …..

Re: Flying Home To Shelley

This is one of those gorgeous tunes that sounds nice at dance speed but it absolutely HAUNTING played at a slow pace. I like to play lots of double stops and ornaments. If I ever figure out ABC notation I’ll write out my slow version.

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