The Foggy Dew march

I play this tune as a slow air.

… I never heard of the foggy dew being played as a reel..
ha. this is like Spancil Hill being played as a jig
.. oh my!

I have always heard this tune played as a march.
Marches were/are an essential part of the repertoire of ceili bands.

https://thesession.org/tunes/2516 Foggy Dew march.

wounded hussar - that’s another Foggy Dew. In fact, that’s the tune I’ve heard the Foggy Dew sung to.

I’ve heard Falkbeer’s tune as a song air before, but with different words.

I have to agree ith Wounded Hussar that his link leads to the tune most musicians recognise as The Foggy Dew. It’s also the one so pasionately sung by the late Luke Kelly of the Dubliners.

This is a slow air, the title tune of Eugene O’Donnell’s The Foggy Dew, on Green Linnet in 1988.

Here’s a tune I picked up aged 7 in the Comhaltas in Wicklow Town. I couldn’t find it on the site, so here it is. I can’t see the connection to it’s more popular relation, though…

sounds like the melody in the dubliners song building up and tearing england down

Yes, similar melody, but "Off to California" is used in that song as well (see YouTube version), so I’d wager they got it from this…

Eugene O’Donnell’s version on this album https://thesession.org/recordings/display/1508 is quite like yours.

Yeah, sounds the exact same alright

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eglm6DN0cRc

play video

# Added by fluther - March 7th, 2011
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Original transcription:

M: 2/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
|: EF G2 | GA B2 | gf e2 | dB A2 | GA BA | BG EG | FA G2 | GF G2 :|
ef g2 | gf e2 | fg ag | fe d2 | Bd e2 | ef gf | ed e2 |ef e2 |
EF G2 | GA B2 | gf e2 | dB A2 | GA BA | BG EG | FA G2 | GF G2 |]

& Comments:

Here’s a tune I picked up aged 7 in the Comhaltas in Wicklow Town. I couldn’t find it on the site, so here it is. I can’t see the connection to it’s more popular relation, though…

# Posted by fluther - March 7th, 2011

* Dubliners song building up and tearing england down

sounds like the melody in the dubliners song building up and tearing england down

# Posted by thom c - March 8th, 2011

Yes, similar melody, but "Off to California" is used in that song as well (see YouTube version), so I’d wager they got it from this…

# Posted by fluther - March 19th, 2011

* Foggy Dew

Eugene O’Donnell’s version on this album https://thesession.org/recordings/display/1508 is quite like yours.

# Posted by Boots MacAllen - March 19th, 2011

Yeah, sounds the exact same alright

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eglm6DN0cRc

play video

# Posted by fluther - March 30th, 2013

# Added by Falkbeer - February 25th, 2007
https://thesession.org/tunes/6862

# Added by fluther - March 7th, 2011
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N: "Moderate" "2nd Setting"
S: Joe McKenna
Z: Transcribed by Manuel Novo

# Posted by Manu Novo - April 22nd, 2011 ( in comments for the 3/4 waltz )

This tune is very similar to "The Bright Hollow Fog", sung by John Williams.

There are two tunes called "The Foggy Dew" in O’Neills 1850. The well-known song is related to the first tune, as is the Hornpipe on this site. This tune is related to the second tune. In the Waltz section here, the first two settings are related to the song but the third is related to this tune.

Hope this helps. Can anything be done to distinguish the tunes on this site?

I came across another version at https://www.8notes.com/scores/11112.asp

Here is a sound-only video of me playing it on a low D.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSXsU4Slvhk

play video

In E min rather than G maj, apart from briefly at beginning of second half: same key signature, of course.