Tap The Barrel reel

From Breandan Breathnach’s collection "Ceol Rince na hEireann"

Yep, this one’s in Breathnach’s Volume 2, collected from the playing of Julia Clifford.

I play this a bit different, as follies:

K: D mixolydian
|: D2 (3FED ADFA | cAGE {G}EDCE | D2 (3FED ADFA | cAGE ADDC |
| D2 (3FED ADFA | cAGE CD (3EFG | D2 (3FED ADFA |1 cAGE A2 GE :| 2 cAGE ADFA ||
|: [d3D3] e faed | cdef (3gag fe | ~d3 e faed | cAGE ADFA |
| d^cde faed | (3Bcd ef ~g3 e | ~f3 d (3efg ed |1 cAGE ADDA :|2 cAGE ADDC ||

The A part alwaysreminds me of Toss the Feathers, and the B part shares lots of similarities with Bantry Lasses and Miss Glavin’s. Variations comes easy by mxing and matching bits of these different tunes, as long as you don’t lose the thread of Tap the Barrel.

T:Tap The Barrel
R:jig
Z:Bill Reeder
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:G
c|BAG AFD|~D3 AFD|BAG AFD|DGG G2c|!
BAG AFD|~D3 AFD|BGB cAF|~G3 G2:||!
e|f2d g2e|f2d cAG|g2g gbg|afd d2e|!
fed g2e|f2d cAG|BAG cAF|~G3 G2:||

Also compare "The Return to Milltown" (https://thesession.org/tunes/3205. Note that Alan Ng considers these to be the same tune; I think their first parts are very similar, but slightly different.