Winnie Hayes’ jig

Also played in Emin

Anyone know what key is ‘standard’ for this tune? Every time I hear it, it seems to be in a different key!

Not very sure, but it’s in Ador on many recordings. There’s a very similar tune in G major, which is called The Old Tipperary: https://thesession.org/tunes/2599

As a mediocre whistle and flute player I personally prefer playing this tune in Edor. You can watch and listen to Mary Custy playing it in the flute-friendly key: http://www.custysmusic.com/mall/CustysTraditionalMusicShop/donal_lunny.htm

According to Dublin fiddler Kevin O’Reilly, Winnie Hayes was a concertina player from Co. Clare. Maybe related to Kitty Hayes.

It must have been meant to be in Edor, surely. Those high C’s and D’s would be a bit much on the fiddle wouldn’t they?

It’s nice in Ddor.

I agree with you slainte…very nice in EMin.

X:1
T:Winnie Hayes’
M:6/8
R:jig
K:EMin
BAF ~E3|FED ~E3|BAF ~E3|FDD FGA|
BAF ~E3|FED ~E3|edB ABd|edB A^GA:||
B^cd ~e3|fed ~e3|Bee Bee|~f3 def|
~g3 ~f3|edB e2f|edB ABd|edB A^GA:||

dose anyone know who wrote this tune ?

I play this in Ador too, but an octave lower on the B/C box.
I roll the Bs in the second and sixth measures instead of the As like here. Sounds good following “Coppers and Brass”, or after “Cat in the Corner,” or alone, as a nutritious snack.

I recently found all the musicians who have recorded this tune in Edor cite Micho Russell as the source. Charlie Piggott informs us Winnie Hayes “lived to be the grand age of 100 years and died in 1980s….” It seems she was not related to Kitty Hayes. See: http://www.theyllbegoodyet.com/track_08.php

Who added “the Yellow Wattle” as an alternative title for this jig? Completely different tunes though they are both associated with Micho Russell.

I’m innocent…

~ but I’ll form a posse with you if that’s required… Are you deputizing?

I’ve been trying to figure out where I know this tune from, its very familiar, and a great tune. The first of the two that Donal Lunny and Mary Custy play in this video:

http://www.custysmusic.com/mall/CustysTraditionalMusicShop/donal_lunny_hi_res.htm

# Posted on December 6th 2006 by Splendid Isolation

Cut-and-pasted from the above mentioned Discussion:

K: E Dorian
|: BAF E2 E | FEE E2 A | BAF E2 E | FDD FGA |
BAF ~E3 | FEE E2 e|edB AB/c/d| edB AFE :|
|: Bcd e2 e | fee efd | ~B3 efg | ef{a}f def |
g2 g fgf | edB e2 f | edB ABd | edB AFE :|

# Posted on December 6th 2006 by whoosis

Winnie Hayes was certainly not related directly to Kitty Hayes although they were from the same area. There is a connection though, one of the Russel’s sisters was married to a fluteplayer who was a neighbour of Kitty when she was young. He learned the tune from WInnie Hayes and later gave it to Micho.
Kitty visited the Russells during hte early 40s but that’s a different story again. Packie played at her wedding in 1948.

Now you I like ‘klfarboy’… (Is there danger in that?) I love seeing a bit of context… 🙂

Uh oh, the expresso is espressing… If you’re in the neighbourhood ~ but if you don’t like strong coffee, there’s tea too…

Thanks for the handy cut and paste C--nice to tie the transcription to the tune file.

Thank you for taking the effort to do it…valued ears… 😉 You produce good transcriptions…

wish I could play as well as I type…. 😏

Nice tune. I am just learning it on fiddle and box (C#/D)

As to typing, I wish my instruments had the musical equivalent of automatic spell-checking!

Dan

Yeah, me too…

I play it in Edor too. Love this tune. Here’s a nice version

Woops, here’s the version…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysDYvv2op74

play video

And not to forget this lovely version……
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N9oc_b6utI

play video

I think it is usually played in Adorian in the session in Glasgow. Having said that I do like it in E dorian and find it far nicer on the whistle in that key.

Surely the second part isn’t played in the same octave as the version posted here though No Cause?

Frighteningly I think it is although I doubt Danny hits the top D on his flute - I think it is normally him who starts the tune.

Roll that B insted of hitting the high D. I think this tune really shines on the flute, more than on other instruments. Don’t play it on a loud whistle ;)

Laoise Kelly taught this tune in the Catskills a few years back and called it The Yellow Wattle, aka Winnie Hayes’. For what it’s worth.

This is a version I picked up at sessions here in Austin, TX. It’s pretty different from the other versions, but you can hear the tune in there if you listen hard. 🙂

Ian, that’s a different tune altogether. See ‘Whelan’s Jig’ : https://thesession.org/tunes/1447

Right you are! Sorry about that, I’ll ask to have it removed if possible.

OK, rather than that I just updated to another setting of this actual tune.

Taken from ‘A Fine Selection of Over 200 Irish Traditional Tunes for Sessions’, compiled by David Speers with a Forward by Matt Cranitch. This is a slight variation to the other settings here but in G dorian.

It’s a good stretcher’, on the whistle …in 4 keys Eg..D Whistle ,Start on 4 different notes ; F,E,b, a ….now that will stretch your brain!

As played, in D dorian, by Sean O’Driscoll, on “So There You Go”: (https://thesession.org/recordings/6300).
You can hear it here: https://youtu.be/6Kx6l4ojkyU?t=139

play video

It follows the excellent “The Twin Cities”: https://thesession.org/tunes/19121