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Dillon Brown reel

Also known as Dillon Brown’s, Willie Clancy’s Mountain Top.

There are 27 recordings of this tune.

This tune has been recorded together with

Dillon Brown appears in 6 other tune collections.

Dillon Brown has been added to 4 tune sets.

Dillon Brown has been added to 43 tunebooks.

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Four settings

1
X: 1
T: Dillon Brown
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
BGAG EGDG|BGAG cedc|BGAG EGDE|GBAG EGG2:|
Bddf egdc|Bddf efg2|Bddf egdc|BGAG EGG2|
Bddf egdc|Bddf efg2|gfge dcBd|cABG EGG2||
2
X: 2
T: Dillon Brown
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
BGAG EGDG|BGAB cedc|BGAG EGDE|GBAG EG~G2:|
Bddg efdc|Bddg eg~g2|Bddg efdB|cABG EGG2|
Bddg efdc|Bddg eg~g2|bage d2Bd|cABG EGG2||
3
X: 3
T: Dillon Brown
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
BGAG EGDG|BGAB cedc|BGAG EGDE|GBAG EG~G2|
GBAG EGDG|BGAB cedc|BGAG EGDE|GBAG EG~G2||
~B3d edgd|edgd eggd|~B3d edgd|cABG EG~G2|
~B3d edgd|edgd egga|bage dgBd|cABG EG~G2||
4
X: 4
T: Dillon Brown
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
BGAG EGDG|BGAB cedc|BGAG EGDc|BGAG EGGA|
BGAG ED D2|BGAB cedc|BGAG EGDc|dBAG EG G2||
B3d edgd|edgd eggd|B3d edgd|cABG EG G2|
B3d edgd|edgd egga|bage dgBd|cABG EG G2||
# Added by JACKB .

Seven comments

Dillon Brown

I first heard this one while I was a student living in Portrush/NI. Years later I found it in a dance tune collection in a Hamburg library. I also found exactly the same in the JC tunefinder. I am aware that there are some similarities with "The Mountain Top", still I think it is a different tune. If someone knows this one under a really different title, I´d be happy to learn. The same goes for recordings.

Here is Mick O’Brien and Caoimhin O Raghallaigh’s version from Kitty Lie Over - just a few notes different from the one posted.

M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
BGAG EGDG | BGAG cedc | BGAG EGDE | GBAG EG~G2 :|
Bddg efdc | Bddg eg~g2 | Bddf efdB | cABG EGG2 |
Bddg efdc | Bddg eg~g2 | bage d2Bd | cABG EGG2 ||

BTW, for consistency’s sake, the two G2s in bars 8 &12 of the O’Brien & O’Raghallaigh version should have had ~s before them.

But, because of where they fall in the tune, the rolls could just as well be omitted altogether.

Another thing - they play it together on two B whistles, so it actually sounds in E.

Dillon Brown

Kevin O’Reilly writes: "Willie Clancy played this beautiful version of The Mountain Top for a collector called Chris Delaney in the early 1970s (you can get copies of his tapes from the University of North Carolina in America). Peter Laban found it in O’Neill’s 1001 #527 with the name Dillon Brown. I know of two recent recordings of it - Enda Ó Catháin’s fine CD Ó inné go inniú (under the title Willie Clancy’s), and the McCarthy’s on The Family Album."

Dillon Brown

Here’s a nice version of the tune from the box playing of Peter Carberry:

BGAG EGDG|BGAB cedc|BGAG EGDE|GBAG EG~G2|
GBAG EGDG|BGAB cedc|BGAG EGDE|GBAG EG~G2||
~B3d edgd|edgd eggd|~B3d edgd|cABG EG~G2|
~B3d edgd|edgd egga|bage dgBd|cABG EG~G2||

He cites the late Mayo box / flute player Dermot Grogan as the source. It’s very similar to Willie Clancy’s version of it transcribed above.