One setting
T: The Happy Man
R: reel
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
|:ge|dB3 AcBA|GEDE GABd|gbaf gedB|cedB A2ge|
dB3 AcBA|GEDE GABd|gbaf gedB|AGAB G2:|
|:Bc|dg3 agbg|agef gedB|dg3 agbg|agef g2ab|
agef gfge|d2BG AGEF|GABd gedB|AGAB G2:|
Also known as An Fear Sona, The Happy Old Man, Paddy O’Brien’s.
There are 12 recordings of this tune.
The Happy Man has been added to 7 tune sets.
The Happy Man has been added to 68 tunebooks.
This is another beautiful composition of Paddy O’Briens, and I usually play this tune before Creigs Pipes
That tune is the “Nervous Man”:
https://thesession.org/tunes/3247
It is the first one of that set :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IZvKpV-KT0
#2 : Trip to the Rosses https://thesession.org/tunes/19494 composed by Josephine Keegan
#3 : Bingo’s https://thesession.org/tunes/15741 composed by herself.