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The Shoemaker’s Daughter reel

Also known as Shoemakers Daughter.

There are 38 recordings of this tune.

This tune has been recorded together with The Eel In The Sink (a few times), Paddy Canny’s Toast (a few times), Paddy Kelly’s (a few times) and Richard Dwyer’s (a few times).

The Shoemaker’s Daughter appears in 2 other tune collections.

The Shoemaker’s Daughter has been added to 13 tune sets.

The Shoemaker's Daughter has been added to 124 tunebooks.

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Three settings

1
X: 1
T: The Shoemaker's Daughter
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
[G,2G2][G,D]G BcdB|G=FDE FD[CF]F|~G2GA Bcde|fdBd c2Bc|
dggf dedc|Bcde fdga|gfdB cBAG|1 FGAF GDEF:|2 FGAF ~G2Bd||
|:g2dg bgdg|gdag fd^cd|[A=f]f (3gff af[cf]f|=fedB cBAB|
dggf dedc|Bcde fdga|gfdB cBAG|1 FGAF ~G2Bd:|2 FGAF GDEF||
2
X: 2
T: The Shoemaker's Daughter
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
DF|:G2 DG BcdB|G=FDE FDCD|G2 DG Bcde|=fdBd c2 Bc|
dg (3gfg dc (3cBc|Bcde =fdcd|g^fdc BcdB|FGAF G2:|
ef|:g2 dg bgdg|gfdg fdcd|g2 dg Bgdg|f2 (3cBA BGGf|
g2 dc BGGE|^FGAB c2 Bc|dg (3gfg de=fd|cA^FA G2:|
3
X: 3
T: The Shoemaker's Daughter
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
|:G2 DG BcdB|{A}G=FDE FDCD|{A}G2DG Bcde|=fdBd (3c/d/c/ABc|
dg ~g2 dc~c2|Bcde =fdBd|gfdc BG~G2|1 FGAF GDEF:|2 FGAF GABd:|
|:g2 dg bgdg|gfde fgaf|g2 dg bgag|fdcA GABd|
gfdc BG~G2|FGAB {d}cABc|dg~g2 defd|1 cAFA GABd:|2 cAFA G4:|

Ten comments

Shoemaker’s Daughter Ed Reavy

I learn’t this tune by air from a cd call Pride of erin under 18’s All-Ireland Champions. The tune is the first track on the cd and it’s
called the Reel na Glaise Selection. The guy who plays it is Marcus Moloney and he play banjo. He plays that tune with a capo on the second fret. Excellent banjo player and he was under 18 at the time. I’ve got on or two lesson off him in the past
and think he is one to watch out for. The oranamation on the tune suits banjo and it’s play more or less the same as the cd. It’s the first tune I’ve by ear and I’m quiet please. Any comments on it please let me know.

Thank’s Paul-K

It’s played quite often in my neck of the woods, and it rocks, I love it.

Coincidence

On the way back from the Willie Clancy week, I was in Ennis on the Saturday night, before catching a flight from Shannon the next morning. I went along to "Cruises" bar, which had a session with 4 resident musicians, including a banjo-player. After a bit, I was cajoled to join in, and when the introductions were made, the banjo-player’s name was Marcus. Now I bought that tape you mentioned a few years back, and putting 2 & 2 together, said "Would your surname be Moloney ?". He thought I must be psychic! Marcus is as good a banjo-player as I’ve ever come across - right up there with O’Connor, Egan, Scahill or Griffin.

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Marcus Moloney

Marcus has a sound of his own on the banjo. Nobody I’ve heard sound like him.

Composer

It’s an Ed Reavy tune.

I know this with the second part somewhat different - no rolls on the Fnat there.

Not good transcription butg lovely Reavy tune

I’ve never seen or heard the tune played this way. Much closer I think is the version found here: http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tuneget?F=GIF&U=/~jc/music/abc/by/EdReavy/Reavycom.abc&X=37&T=SHOEMAKERSDAUGHTER.
At least that’s the way it’s played in sessions around north Clare — Ennistymon, Doolin, Kilfenora. And it’s closer to Reavy’s own version.
The Fn is often played F#, making it much more flute-friendly.

Ed Reavy - Shoemaker’s Daughter

Here is what it gives on the Ed Reavy site itself

X: 37
T:The Shoemaker’s Daughter
R:Reel
C:Ed Reavy
M:4/4
L:1/8
Z:Joe Reavy
N:Ed wrote the tune in the fifties,
N:but it did not become popular in Ireland
N:until the seventies, when it
N:was record by Seamus Connelly,
N:the well-known Galway fiddler.
K:G
DF|:G2 DG BcdB|G=FDE FDCD|G2 DG Bcde|=fdBd c2 Bc|
dg (3gfg dc (3cBc|Bcde =fdcd|g^fdc BcdB|FGAF G2:|
ef|:g2 dg bgdg|gfdg fdcd|g2 dg Bgdg|f2 (3cBA BGGf|
g2 dc BGGE|^FGAB c2 Bc|dg (3gfg de=fd|cA^FA G2:|