The Thrush In The Morning reel

Source: Ronan Browne & Peter O’Loughlin: “The South West Wind”
Transcription: g.m.p.

good luck!

I suspect the doctor would recomend Greek Yoghurt for such a complaint.

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One of my favourites. It pains me that I can never find anyone to play it with. We must meet up sometime, G.M.

It was actually already posted last year:

https://thesession.org/tunes/967

…but it’s such a good tune that it deseves to be posted at least twice. Anyway, the setting is slightly different.

It was composed by Seamus Ennis, I believe.

Emily_az, you’re a nurse, perhaps you should answer Gian Marco’s “?”…

Seamus Ennis plays this tune on the record named “Seamus Ennis, The Return from Fingal” where he credits the tune as being composed by his father.

The title of this tune is hilarious!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLe9etQ0iwQ

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The Morning Thrush was composed by Jimmy Ennis in 1913 or 1914; Séamus Ennis found the manuscript at home and learned the reel from the manuscript. Apparently, Ennis sr. was delighted to hear Séamus playing the tune. Jimmy Ennis entered the tune in the Feis Ceoil and won the competition. He was inspired by a thrush that used to sing in a tree by his bedroom window.

[notes taken from Séamus Ennis himself, recorded]

Sat down and wrote this out tonight …

X:1
T:The Morning Thrush
C:James Ennis
M:C|
S:Seamus Ennis Clip on Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLe9etQ0iwQ

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L:1/8
K:Dmaj
{g}a3g[|!trill!f2 ef d2 AF | dA{c}AF A2 .g/.f/e | d2 AF {A}D~F3 | ABdf eg~fe ||
.dA{c}AF .dA{c}AF | {c}BAFA dADE | {A}F/E/D FA defa | {b}afef dfag |]
[|!trill!f2 ef d2 AF | d2 AF A2 .g/.f/e | d2 AF {A}D~F3 | ABdf eg~fe ||
.dA{c}AF .dA{c}AF | {c}BAFA dADE | {A}F/E/D FA defa | {b}afef d3A |]
[| df{g}fe fa{b}af | .gg{a}ge .ff{g}fe | dcde fa{b}af | ~g3f eAce ||
dg~fe f~a3 | {b}ag{b}af ecdB | {c}AD.FA defa | {b}afef d2 A/B/c |]
[| df{g}fe fa{b}af | g2{a}ge f{g}f{g}fe | dcde fa{b}af | ~g3f eAce ||
.dg~fe f~a3 | {b}ag{b}af ecdB | {c}AD.FA defa | {b}afef d2 A/B/c |]
[|.dA{c}AF BA{c}AF | .DA.D.F A~F3 | .dFAF .d~F3 | ABdf !accent!e2 g/f/e ||
.dFAF D~F3 | A.dFA D~F3 | AB.de .f/.g/a gb | ~afef d3 A |]
[|.dA{c}AF BA{c}AF | .DA.D.F A~F3 | .dF{B}AF .d~F3 | ABdf !accent!e2 g/f/e ||
.dA{B}AF .dA{B}AF | {c}BAFA dADE | {A}F/E/D FA defa | {b}a.fef dfag |]

It’s the first time through the tune …

This tune, with parts in different order, appears in Josephine Keegan’s tunebook “A Drop in the Ocean” under the title The Fairy Bush.