The Steampacket reel

Zina sent me an email asking for my "setting" of this tune, too grand a word for how I play it, which is not far off the standard session settings I’ve heard from other fiddlers.

I originally learned that opening bar of the first half as: |A~G3 AGFD| and I still use that on occasion, but to me it lacks punch. Sometimes I play that first measure as: |DGBG AGFG| and sometimes I like to repeat the AGFG in the following measure for a little swing:

|(3GGG BG AGFG|AGFG Addc|

My B part is even closer to the "standard" version…I roll almost all those high g’s, tho I suppose with a little noodling I could come up with something more creative. At session speed, though, I like the way the rolls ring out, so there they are. :-)

Incidentally, the Steampack makes a nice follow-up to Bantry Lasses, which I posted not too long ago.

In the second to last measure, that should be an f after the triplet: |af (3gfe fde^c| d2 etc.

I fixed it in the abc notation. Gawd, if the clients I edit for saw what havoc I wreak in here….

T:Steam Packet, The
M:C|
L:1/8
S:Late… In The Night by Christy Barry, Conor McCarthy, Cyril O’Donoghue
R:reel
Z:gmp
K:G
| B~G3 AGFA | D~G3 A2dc | A~G3 AGFG | =F3G ABcA |
BGGB AGFA | D~G3 A2dc | A~G3 AGFG | =F3G ABcA |
d~g3 aggf | dgge fdcA | d~g3 agfg | dcde fdcA |
d~g3 agfg | a2ag ~f3g | a2(3gfe fdec | d2eg fdcA |

T:Steam Packet, The
M:C|
L:1/8
S:Kevin Crawford - D Flute album
R:reel
Z:gmp
K:G
| ~G3B AGFD | A~G3 Addc | A~G3 AGFD | =FEFG ABcz |
A~G3 AGFD | A~G3 Addc | A~G3 AGFD | =FEFG ABc^c |
d~g3 a~g3 | d2eg fdcA | d~g3 a~g3 | dcde fdcA |
d~g3 a~g3 | abag ~f3g | abge fd(3edc | d2eg fdcA |

T:Steam Packet, The
M:C|
L:1/8
S:The South West Wind by Ronan Browne And Peter O’Loughlin
R:reel
Z:gmp
K:G
| A~G3 AGFD | A~G3 Addc | A2GB AGFD | ~F3G ABcB |
A~G3 AGFD | A~G3 Addc | A2GB AGFD | ~F3G ABcA |
d~g3 a~g3 | dgge fdcA | d~g3 aggf | dcde fdcA |
d~g3 agfg | abag ~f3g | afge fdef | dfag fdcA ||
"2nd time start" ~G3B AGFD |

Kiss the Maid behid the Bar: https://thesession.org/tunes/676
Kitty’s Gone a Milking: https://thesession.org/tunes/1647
Trim the Velvet: https://thesession.org/tunes/1142

Oops, that should read Kiss the Maid behind the *Barrel*.

Does anyone have the abc’s for Denis Murphy’s version of the steampacket, on the From Galway to Dublin CD, track 6. I sounds a bit different from the sheet music printed here. Thanks.

X:1
T:Steam Packet, The
M:C|
L:1/8
S:The South West Wind by Ronan Browne And Peter O’Loughlin
R:reel
Z:gmp
K:G
| A~G3 AGFG | A~G3 Addc | A~G3 AGFD | ~F3G ABcB |
A~G3 AGFD | A~G3 Addc | A~G3 AGFD | ~F3G ABcA |
d~g3 a~g3 | d~g3 fdcA | d~g3 a~g3 | d2eg fdcA |
d~g3 a~g3 | abag fefg | afge fgfe | d2eg fdcA ||
"2nd time start" ~G3B AGFD |

X:1
T:Steam Packet, The
M:C|
L:1/8
S: Davy Spillane and Kevin Glackin
R:reel
Z:
K:G
| A~G3 AGFG | A~G3 Addc | A~G3 AGFD | =F3G ABcB |
A~G3 AGFD | A~G3 Addc | A~G3 AGFD | =F3G ABcA |
d~g3 a~g3 | d~g3 fdcA | d~g3 a~g3 | d2eg fdcA |
d~g3 a~g3 | abag fefg | afge fgfe | d2eg fdcA ||

Would also say that the Crooked Road is a related tune. Setting I learned from Brian McGrath has almost identical B part.

This tune packs a mean, powerful piston rod action!

It takes its name from the famous shipping company that was founded in London in 1839 by Scotland’s own James MacQueen http://www.merchantnavyofficers.com/rm1.html The state sponsored company would become the largest shipping group in the world a hundred years on.
See also: http://www.steam-packet.com/ for the Hiberno-Manx connections (so to say!)

Tune #1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgM1mwGxLf8

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Charlie Lennon plays this on his album The Emigrant Suite and calls it "The Tobacco Leaf".