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Tie The Bonnet reel

Also known as Easy And Slow, Janet Tied The Bonnet Tight, Jenny Lace Your Tights, Tie The Bonnet Tight.

There are 43 recordings of this tune.

This tune has been recorded together with Lucy Campbell (a few times), The Mountain Top (a few times), The Connaught Heifers (a few times) and Sailing In (a few times).

Tie The Bonnet appears in 1 other tune collection.

Tie The Bonnet has been added to 7 tune sets.

Tie The Bonnet has been added to 143 tunebooks.

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Four settings

1
X: 1
T: Tie The Bonnet
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Edor
~E3B BABG|EFGE FDDF|~E3B BABc|1 dfed dBAF:|2 dfed dBAd||
|:BA (3Bcd efge|fdfa afdf|g2bg faaf|1 (3efg fe dBAd:|2 (3efg fe dBAF||
2
X: 2
T: Tie The Bonnet
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Bmin
|: B2 ef efge | fefg afdf | g2 bg faaf | egfd edBA |
B2 ef efge | fefg afdf | g2 bg faaf | edfe dBAF :|
|: E2 BA BAGF | E3 G FDDF | EB B2 BABd | egfe dBAF |
E3 B BAGF | E3 G FDDF | EB B2 BABd | egfd Beef :|
|:eB B2 efge | d2 fg afdf | gfge f3 d | egfd edBA |
B2 ef efge | fefg afdf | g2 bg faaf | edfe dBAF :|
|: E3 A B2 GF | EDEG FDDF | EB B2 BABd | egfe dBAF |
E3 B BAGF | E3 G FDDF | EB B2 BABd | egfd Beef :|
3
X: 3
T: Tie The Bonnet
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Edor
E3B BABG|EGBG FDAF|~E3B BABc|1 d2fe dBAF:|2 dfed dBAd||
|:BA (3Bcd e2fe|defg afdf|1 g2bg fdaf|(3efg fe dBAd:|2 g2bg effd|(3efg fe dBAF||
4
X: 4
T: Tie The Bonnet
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Amix
A3 g fdec | A2 A=c BGGB | A3 g fdef | gfge dBGB :|
Aeaf gfed | (3cBA eA fAec | Aaaf gfef | gfge dBGB |
Aeaf gfed | (3cBA eA fAed | c2 af gfef | gfge dBGB |]

Ten comments

Tie The Bonnet

Picked this up from a session at the National Folk Festival in Canberra this year. This is the tune that appears on Brian Rooney’s "The Godfather", and also Lunasa’s "Kinnitty Sessions". Another tune in O’Neill’s that goes by the same name https://thesession.org/tunes/136 is similar in the A-part but nevertheless a different tune.

"Tie the Bonnet" / "Easy and Slow" ~ rescued duplication

~ /tunes/7246
Submitted on May 22nd 2007 by JACKB.

The following transcription by JACKB has the two parts reversed and twice through…

X: 1
T: Easy And Slow
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: b minor
|: B2 ef efge | fefg afdf | g2 bg faaf | egfd edBA |
B2 ef efge | fefg afdf | g2 bg faaf | edfe dBAF :|
|: E2 BA BAGF | E3 G FDDF | EB B2 BABd | egfe dBAF |
E3 B BAGF | E3 G FDDF | EB B2 BABd | egfd Beef :|
|:eB B2 efge | d2 fg afdf | gfge f3 d | egfd edBA |
B2 ef efge | fefg afdf | g2 bg faaf | edfe dBAF :|
|: E3 A B2 GF | EDEG FDDF | EB B2 BABd | egfe dBAF |
E3 B BAGF | E3 G FDDF | EB B2 BABd | egfd Beef :|

A nice slow reel I learnt a long time ago. I don’t know if it has another name.

# Posted on May 22nd 2007 by JACKB

We don’t play it slow in Sydney…

# Posted on May 22nd 2007 by Dow

T:Tie The Bonnet
M:4/4
L:1/8
S:Dancing On Silver by Tim Collins
R:reel
Z:gian marco pietrasanta
K:EDor
E3B BABG|EGBG FDAF|~E3B BABc|1 d2fe dBAF:|2 dfed dBAd||
|:BA (3Bcd e2fe|defg afdf|1 g2bg fdaf|(3efg fe dBAd:|2 g2bg effd|(3efg fe dBAF||

Not the Tie the Bonnet on Maple Leaf or Comhaltas collection

Hey all,

I’m currently working on Tie the Bonnet as it appears in the Comhaltas Foinn Seisiun collection. It’s also the same tune on Jimmy Noonan’s Maple Leaf, but it’s NOT what’s posted here. What gives? Can some wiser member enlighten?
TMG

See "DrDow’s" initial comment above - he provides the link to the far more common version of the tune.

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Tune origin

Tie the bonnet is an Irish version of the Scotch/border reel "I Had a Lass Till I Ran at Her", which appears on this site. The tune is likely to have been originally in A and for the pipes. It is in also in this key in O’Neill’s . The title probably means "Hold the Horse Still", though a double-entendre is possible.

Tie The Bonnet, X:4

This setting was played by the Scottish group Old Blind Dogs on their 1995 album Legacy.