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I Have No Money reel

Also known as Miss Hamilton’s, Taim Gan Airgead.

There are 20 recordings of this tune.

This tune has been recorded together with The Ruined Old Cottage In The Glen (a few times), The Cocktail (a few times), Jessica’s (a few times), Kerryman’s Fling (a few times) and Tear The Calico (a few times).

I Have No Money appears in 4 other tune collections.

I Have No Money has been added to 8 tune sets.

I Have No Money has been added to 108 tunebooks.

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Five settings

1
X: 1
T: I Have No Money
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
DE | FAdB A2 AG | FAdA F~E3 | FAdB ABdf | afeg fddA |
| FAdB A2 AG | FAdA F~E3 | FAdB ABdf | afeg fddf ||
| afef ~d3f | afeg fBBf | afef d2 dB | ABAG FDDf |
| afef ~d3f | afeg fBBf | ~a3f efdB | ABAG FDDE ||
# Added .
2
X: 2
T: I Have No Money
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
| FAdB A2{B}AG | FAdA FEEG | FAdB A2Af |1 afeg fddA: |2 afeg fddf ||
| afef d2df | afeg fBBf | afef dedB | A2{B}AG FDDf |
| afef d2df | afeg fBBf | a2af edBd | A2{B}AG FAdA ||
3
X: 3
T: I Have No Money
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
dB|:AFdB ~A3B|AFdA FE~E2|AFdB Ad (3efg|afeg fdeB:|2 afeg fddf||
|:afef d2 (3efg|afed (3efg bg|afef defe|1 dBAG Feed:|2 dBAG FD~D2||
4
X: 4
T: I Have No Money
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
(3FGA dB ~A3G | (3FGA dA FEEG | (3FGA dB ~A3f | afeg fedG |
(3FGA dB ~A3G | (3FGA dA FEEG | FAdB ~A3f |1 afeg fdd2 :|2 afeg fedf |
|:afef dfaf | afeg fbbf | afef dcdB | (3AcA GA FADf |
afef dcdf | afeg fbbf | af (3gfe fdBd | A2AG FAD2 :|
5
X: 5
T: I Have No Money
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
|: FAdB A3G | FAdA FE E2 | FAdB ABdf | afeg fddA |
| FAdB A3G | FAdA FE E2 | FAdB ABdf | afeg fddf ||
|: afef dcdf | afeg fB B2 | afef dcdB | ABAG FDDf |
| afef dcdf | afeg fB B2 | afge dedB | ABAG FDDE ||
# Added by JACKB .

Four comments

I Have No Money

This is a fairly common session tune, though many of the players I’ve heard knock it out don’t know a name for it. Most who do have a name call it I Have No Money, but Alan Ng’s web site also gives Miss Hamilton as an alternate title. I’ll stick with the lack of money, cuz I like the contrast with the kick-up-your-heels, giddy melody line.

In the A part, on whistle or flute, I’d roll the long A in the 1st and 5th bars. On fiddle, I’ll do any of the following:
| FAdB ABAG |
| FAdB ~A3G | (an open string roll)
| FAdB (3AAA AG | (bowed triplet)
| FAdB (3ABA AG | (slurred triplet)
| FAdB [A2A2] AG | (doublestop with the 4th finger, 3rd string A and open A string)

In the B part, I sometimes play high b’s in the 6th bar:
| afeg fbbf |

Usually played as a single reel, that is, ABAB.

Posted .

T:I Have No Money
M:4/4
L:1/8
S:Traditional Irish Music From Doolin Co. Clare by Terry Bingham
R:reel
Z:g.m.p
K:D
| FAdB A2{B}AG | FAdA FEEG | FAdB A2Af |1 afeg fddA: |2 afeg fddf ||
| afef d2df | afeg fBBf | afef dedB | A2{B}AG FDDf |
| afef d2df | afeg fBBf | a2af edBd | A2{B}AG FAdA ||

From track 5 of Barry Kerr’s "The Three Sisters":

X: 1
T: I Have No Money
T: Donegal Reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
S: Barry Kerr - The Three Sisters
K: Dmaj
dB|:AFdB ~A3B|AFdA FE~E2|AFdB Ad (3efg|afeg fdeB:|2 afeg fddf||
|:afef d2 (3efg|afed (3efg bg|afef defe|1 dBAG Feed:|2 dBAG FD~D2||

This tune is in the Gunn Book (Fermanagh 1865) as ‘Miss Hamilton’s Reel’.
I have always known it as I Have no Money