Health To The Ladies jig

Also known as A Health To The Ladies, An Irishman’s Gift To The Ladies, An Irishman’s Heart To The Ladies, Brigidin Deas Ní Dalaig, Carty’s, Fond Of The Ladies, Here’s A Health To The Ladies, Irishman’s Heart To The Ladies, The Irishman’s Heart To The Ladies, Irishman’s Hearts To The Ladies, Little Boy Ted In The Hay, Sweet Biddy Daily, Sweet Biddy Daly, Sweet Biddy Daly’s, To The Ladies.

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Health To The Ladies appears in 7 other tune collections.

Health To The Ladies has been added to 83 tune sets.

Health To The Ladies has been added to 474 tunebooks.

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This tune is also known as “To the Ladies”, and as “An Irishman’s Heart to the Ladies”.

I have heard the tune slowed down, and played as a triple jig for teaching dance to young children.

Goes great in a set with The Blackthorn Stick.

It’s sometimes played in G.

Alright, G, so share with us your G take on this one…

“Here’s a Health to the Ladies”

K: A Major
|: a/f/ |
ecA BAF | AFE EFA | B/c/dc B^AB | cB^A B2 =a/f/ |
ecA BAF | AFE EFA | B/c/dc B^AB | cAG A2 :||
|: B |
cee d2 f | cee ecA | Ac/d/e f/g/af | ecA B^AB |
c2 e dff | c2 e ecA | B/c/dc B^AB | cAG A2 :||

& with the accidental, this time raising the ‘G’:

K: G Major
|: ge |
dB/A/G AGE | GED DE/F/G | A/B/cB A^GA | BA^G A=ge |
dBG AGE | GED D2 G | AcB A^GA | BGF G :|
|: GA |
Bdd cee | B/c/de dBG | GB/c/d gfe | dBG A2 G |
B2 d c2 e | Bdd dBG | AcB A^GA | BGF G :|

Health To The Ladies, X:5

This setting appears in O’Neill’s Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody, 1922, no. 154, as Fond of the Ladies.