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Bonnie Mulligan reel

By Peter Ostroushko

Also known as Bonnie Mulligan’s.

There are 9 recordings of this tune.

Bonnie Mulligan has been added to 2 tune sets.

Bonnie Mulligan has been added to 77 tunebooks.

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Three settings

1
X: 1
T: Bonnie Mulligan
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Amaj
"A"a2ed cdeg|aece degb|a2ed cdec|"E"~B3c defg|
"A"a2ed cdeg|aece degb|a2ed cdec|1 "E"~B3d cAAg:|2 "E"~B3d cAAc||
"D"defd "A"cdec|"E"B3c B2Ac|"D"defd "A"cdec|"E"B3c dcBc:|
"A"Acec "D"defd|"A"cdec "E"dcBc|"A"Acec "D"defg|"A"afed cdef|
"G"=g3f g2ag|"D"fddc defg|"A"a2ed cdec|"E"~B3d cAAF||
K:Amix
"A"E3F ECA,C|EFGE "D"D2AF|"A"~E3F ABcf|"E"ecAc BcAF|
"A"E3F ECA,C|EFGE "D"D2AF|"A"E3F "G"G3F|EDCE DB,G,B,:|
K:Ador
"C"C2EC "G"B,CDB,|"Am"B,A,A,G, A,4|A,2EA, GA,FA,|EFGE "G"DB,G,B,|
"C"C2EC "G"B,DGD|"Am"B,A,A,G, A,4|"A"A,^CEC "D"DFAF|1 "E"E^GBd "A"^cAAB,:|2 "E"E^GBG "G"[B4=G4]||
K:A
"Bm"[B3e3]c dcBA|"E"[B3e3]c defg||
"F#m"a2ed cdeg|"D"aece degb|"Bm"a2ed cdec|"E"~B3c defg|
"F#m"a2ed cdeg|"D"aece degb|"Bm"a2ed cdec|"E"~B3d cAAg|
"A"a2ed cdeg|aece degb|a2ed cdec|"E"~B3c defg|
"A"a2ed cdeg|aece degb|a2ed cdec|"E"[B3e3]d czBz|
"E"[B3e3]d czBz|"A"[A8E8]||
2
X: 2
T: Bonnie Mulligan
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Amaj
"A"a2ed cdeg|aece degb|a2ed cdec|"E"~B3c defg|
"A"a2ed cdeg|aece degb|a2ed cdec|1 "E"~B3 c BAA2:|2 "E"~B3 c BAAc||
|:"D"defd "A"cdec|"E"B2Bc BAAc|"D"defd "A"cdec|1 "E"BEE2 Bcdc:|2 B2 Bc dcBc||
|:"A"Acec "D"defd|"A"cdec "E"B2Bc|"A"Acec "D"defg|1 "A"a2ed cAA2:|2 a2ed cdeg||
3
X: 3
T: Bonnie Mulligan
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
|:"G"g3d BGBd|gdBd cdef|g3d BcdB|"D"A3B cdef|
"G"g3d BGBd|gdBd cdef|g2dc BGBd|1 "D"BdcA BG G2:|2 "D"BdcA AGGB||
|:"C"cdec "G"BcdB|"D"A3B cBAG|"C"cdec "G"BcdB|1 "D"ADD2 FGAB:|2 A3B cBAB||
|:"G"GBdB "C"cdec|"G"BcdB "D"A3B|"G"GBdB "C"cdef|1 "G"g2dc BGG2:|2 g2dc Bcdf||
# Added by JACKB .

Ten comments

I was at a session in The Maltings in York (UK) last week and a very talented fiddler played this great tune. I was bowled over with it, so here it is.

I got the abc from the JC tunefinder site. It was written by Peter Ostroushko. Sharon Shannon does a good version - she repeats the whole tune just before the ‘pour finir’ note in this transcription.

Note that the key changes to A mix in line 6 and A dor in line 8 before reverting to A maj in line 10.

Good one , domnull. [ Anything doing in York this weekend, do you know ? ]

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Maudabawn Chapel + Bonnie Mulligan

This is a very successful pairing of reels (see the recording details of ‘Presence’ by Catherine Fraser and Duncan Smith) - these tunes definitely have a similar feel about them

Bonnie Mulligan

My “pour finir” comment has mysteriously disappeared from the ABC and the sheetmusic. It was at the start of line 11, to indicate that after playing the 1st 10 lines with repeats, go back to the start and play them again (with repeats), then play the last 5 lines as a ‘coda’.