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Charlie Lennon’s Number Four
This is probably not exactly how Charlie composed this "note for note", but it’s how I learned it from one-while contributer to the site, "Ptarmigan". A lovely reel, on any instrument.
I love this tune, its about time someone posted it -good one! I learnt this tune in Dublin off a lovely fiddle player called Noreen Leech (she does gigs in gogartys as well) but they used to have a session in Keatings, thats going back about 5 years now!
sometimes also called Charlie Lennon’s N
Charlie Lennon’s Number Four
Charlie Lennon himself does an excellent job of this tune on the album "Lucky in Love" - the medley starts off with "Francis John McGovern’s" then moves to "Road to Cashel" and ends with "Charlie Lennon’s No. 4." A great reel!
Charlie Lennon’s No. 4
Just by way of comparison, here’s how this reel appears in Charlie Lennon’s tunebook "Musical Memories 1":
UF2AF dFAF | DFAF GBAG | F2AF dFAF | (3GAG FG EFGE | F2AF dFAF | DFAF GBAG |1 FAdf ecAB | (3cBA eA cAGA :||
2 FAdf e^def | (3gag ec ABcA||:Udefd Adfd | eA{d}BA ge{a}fe | d2fd adfd | (3Bcd ef gece | d2fd Adfd | (3BdB GB g2fg |
(3agf ge {a}fded |1 cded cAce :||2 cded cAGE | D8 ||
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thats from enda scahills-pick it up. it´s gan ainm from track
no. 11.
Charlie’s #4 ?
I’ll have to listen to the recording again, but I reckon this is Enda Scahill’s version of “Charlie Lennon’s No.4” which I posted some time ago.
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on the cd enda plays it in Eb.
Aye, just stumbled on this, & it brings back many happy, although distant, memories of Bell’s in the late 70’s, when this, & Charlie’s No 3, were great favourites of the regular sessioneers, back then.
I actually bumped into Charlie in a session in Spiddal around that time, & when I told him about this great Edinburgh session Pub, Sandy Bell’s, he asked me to play a couple of our favourite tunes, & I couldn’t resist the temptation so played his No 3 & No 4.
Naturally he beamed with pride, although I no doubt made a complete mess of them!
Anyway, this is how I play NO 4 these days - but of course Charlie’s [above] is the right way!
X: 1
T: Lennon’s No 4
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
DE|:F2 AF dFAF|DFAF GBAG|F2 AF dFAF|GABG E3 G|
F2 AF dFAF|DFAF GBAG|FAdf ecAB|1 c/B/A/ ed cAGE:|2 (3cBA ed cABc||
d2 fd Adfd|eA (3AAA afge|d2 fd adfd|ce (3eee gece|1 d2 fd Adfd|BG (3GGG g2 fg|afge fded|(3Bcd ed BABc:|2 defd Adfd|BAGB g2 fg|afge fded|(3Bcd ed cAGE||
Sorry, end of 1st part should have read:
|1 (3cBA ed cAGE:|2 (3cBA ed cABc||
The version I learnt is exactly like Kenny’s except for bar 6 of the B-part, where I go down to G and play |BG~G2 g2fg|…
Or try this kitchen version by Cathal Hayden with variations, accompanied by Arty McGlynn. It’s the second tune of the two played. (I think the first is Tom Ward’s Downfall). I never tire of hearing this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx8lRx7BTTA&feature=related
Peter
