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As published in a book called "Irish Traditional Music, Session Tunes" by Anthony Sullivan.
There is another version of it in O
Sean Nos Words w/ translation
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Sean Nos?
I always heard it with accompaniment. Interesting.
And there’s also there’s three verses, as well as the chorus yu posted.
Go to:
http://www.geocities.com/celticlyricscorner/altan/harveststorm.htm
for the lyrics + translation
Kevin Conneff sings to this melody on The Chieftains’ "Boil the Breakfast Early."
caoimhin o’raghallaigh claims that Sport is a three-part version of this tune. decide for yourself:
https://thesession.org/tunes/870
—DtM
After hearing this song on an Altan CD, my 5-year-old likes to sing
- sheet of one boy, sheet of one boy, sheet of one boy , goin’ to Connecticut.
Padraig O’Keefe
Just heard an interview (archived) on RTE, where Padraig O’Keefe was stated as writing a tune with the name "Hag with the Money".
The lovely Aoife Murray sings a version of this here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB2g7YeoFCY
The Hag With The Money
Aidan Shannon on flute, Enda McGreevy on fiddle and Keith Gildea on button accordion, the second tune…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzYQyKzLiyE&feature=grec_browse
It’s often played with C#s instead of C naturals.
Cailleach an Airgid
It seems the song is often associated with the sean nos singing tradition of Connemara, Co. Galway. Here’s Connemara man Jimmy Cannavan singing the song: http://source.pipers.ie/Media.aspx?mediaId=4764
what’s this big obsession with transposing tunes into Emix Jack?
Emix/Bmin(?)
When playing through the Emix vesrion I forgot the G# (B partonly anyway) - and that’s another possible way to play the tune ;-)
The Hag With The Money
This is the title John McGrath used on the tune when he wrote it for his students.
Finbar Furey Version
Another great piping tune by the great Finbar Furey, his back ‘D’ tripling in this version is just amazing, took me years to work out what he was doing. You should listen to his version before trying the dots.