The Hag With The Money jig

As published in a book called “Irish Traditional Music, Session Tunes” by Anthony Sullivan.
There is another version of it in O

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I always heard it with accompaniment. Interesting.
And there’s also there’s three verses, as well as the chorus yu posted.

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.

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

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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

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It’s often played with C#s instead of C naturals.

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?

When playing through the Emix vesrion I forgot the G# (B partonly anyway) - and that’s another possible way to play the tune 😉

This is the title John McGrath used on the tune when he wrote it for his students.

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.

This setting from the playing of John Sullivan of Glentanefinnane, Ballydesmond, Co. Cork. I think it was learned from Patrick O’Keeffe, but am unsure if it is related to the composition mentioned above. Name given by the musician is “Mary Duggan’s”.

John plays it here:
https://soundcloud.com/thady-quill/glountanefinnane-primrose-vale-jigs?in=thady-quill/sets/john-osullivan-music-from

This (X:10) is a version of the variant X:9 of the jig posted above.
This variant, another regular jig (32 bars), is as close as it gets to the original song without showing the extra beats that characterise it.
( Many other sung jigs are characterised by extra beats or bars -or missing ones.)

Pipers will relish the ghost D ( shown as Eb here) which is an inflexion found in sean-nós singing.
Tip:
Play any ddd / ded / d_ed (_e = Eb) group of quavers interchangeably…

The link to the lyric above seems to have been disabled …here is another option, through the handy and well endowed
Songs in Irish website;
https://songsinirish.com/si-mhaimeo-i-lyrics/

complete with translation and a Foras na Gaeilge animation movie!

Joe Heany swears that this song was written about his Grandmother btw