The Flooded Road To Glenties reel

Learned from the playing of Jesse Smith on a Cherish the Ladies album. They list it simply as “B minor Reel” *grr* If you need to practice your b rolls this is the tune to play! 🙂

-Jonathan

Reel written by Jimmy McHugh, posted on behalf of bb as it is one of her favourite tunes. Transcribed from Liz Doherty’s album “Quare Imagination”. In practice her long rolls start on the note below, followed by a short roll, but I’ve simplified this for the transcription, so for example e~f2e I’ve written as ~f3e and A~B2A as ~B3A.

Thanks Dow! Lads, this really is a tasty tune, I hope you’se all learn it!

I worked out some nice chords for this today. I know there are people out there who hate me for talking about chords, but hey, I’m a backer, and they might be useful for someone, so here goes:

|:Bm A |A E|Bm A|C#m F#m|
F#m A|G D|F#m|A E:|
|:Bm|Bm A|Bm A|C#m F#m|
F#m A|G D|F#m|A E:|

Thanks, Dow, for posting this tune! Actually, I posted it a month or so ago under “Gan Aimn” because I didn’t know the name.

I learnt mine from a *very* static-filled tape. That, combined with my lack of skill at learning from Jesse Smith blazing fiddle has made our transcriptions different. Which is good! 🙂

Jonathan

Mark, thanks for the chords–the backers I play with love it when I suggest chords for new tunes, and your info here helps.

Thanks Will. As long as people aren’t getting the impression that I’m a cheeky young upstart telling other people how to play. I’m passionate about harmony and backing, and I only want to help and contribute in a positive way to this website, that’s all. Jonathan, sorry for duplicating. I didn’t thnk to do an advanced search for the abc. If Jeremy deletes this I’ll post the chords in the comments of the other one.

There’re quite a few different versions of this tune. I learnt one version in Paul Bradley’s class at the Willie Clancy Week, then a completely version from Liz Doherty a couple of weeks ago, and this one’s different again - they all make for good variations!

I don’t think you tell other people how to play, Mark. *snicker*

Imagine me smiling and obsessively ticking your name off on my list.

Zeens √

One of these days I must start taking those pills the doctor gave me for my syndrome :o⌡

Thank you for this
Didnt know McHugh of McHugh’s on “Wintering out” wrote it.
Heard Mairi Campbell and Derek Hoy play it in the Castle arms, Edinburgh few yrs ago

This tune is actually called “The Flooded Road to Glenties.” For another transcription see:

https://thesession.org/tunes/3440

-Jonathan

Yes indeed it is ‘The Flooded Road to Glenties’ and composed by the late Jimmy McHugh of Tyrone and Glasgow.

I noticed quite a difference between the version I learned of this, from the Victoria Bar session (Christina Smith), and the version Benny McHugh (Jimmy’s son) plays. I quite like the low G# followed by the high A in his version

X:1
T:The Flooded Road to Glenties
R:reel
C:Jimmy McHugh
S:Benny McHugh, Sharkey’s Bar Glasgow
Z:robin.beech@mcgill.ca
L:1/8
M:4/4
K:Bdor
FB B/A/B Gafe | cfec BAFE | FB B/A/B Ga a/g/a | gfeg f2 fe |
fgfe cfec | B/c/B cB cefg | aff2 egfe |1 cfec B2BA :|2 cfec B2Bc |:
dB B/A/B aBgB | fB B/A/B cBAc | dB B/A/B ABde | gfeg f2 fg |
gffe fgfe | cfec BAFE | FB B/A/B ABce | afec B2Bc :|

For jdave’s transcription of this, go here: https://thesession.org/tunes/3160.

Katie Boyle playing it on YouTube (second tune):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqfGl8jyAKY

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Is this an Irish tune then? id guess so like…Jimmy McHugh is an Irish soundin name! Could I play it in the Fleadh like?

Here is the version Dave Cory plays on banjo on Track 7 from “Isn’t Anyone Going To Stop Them?” by Magic Square

X:1
T:The Flooded Road to Glenties
R:reel
C:Jimmy McHugh
S:Dave Cory, Magic Square
L:1/8
M:4/4
K:Bdor
FB BF Bcaf | cfeB cBAB | FB BB Bc af | gfeg ef ff |
fgfe cfec | BF cF cdfg | afff ecef |1 cfec ABBA :|2 cfec ABBc ||
dB BB aBgB | fB BB cBAc | FB BB cAaf | gfeg effg |
fafe cfec | BFBc defg | af.ff ecfe | cfec ABBc :|

https://thesession.org/tunes/3440

Or the other way round? Anyway, same tune.

😀

It’s a “McHuge” tune 🙂

I hope you can hear the groaning from south of the border Kenny!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdqWfnJhmgY

play video

The tune certainly reminds me a bit of Sweeny’s Buttermilk.

a version from Fergal Scahill from his album: “Wayfaring”