back menu
Log in or Sign up

The Besom In Bloom jig

There are 8 recordings of this tune.

The Besom In Bloom appears in 3 other tune collections.

The Besom In Bloom has been added to 1 tune set.

The Besom In Bloom has been added to 51 tunebooks.

Download ABC

Two settings

1
X: 1
T: The Besom In Bloom
R: jig
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: Dmix
|:FED ~F2F|GED D3|FED FGA|GFG AGE|
FED F3|AFA ~f2f|ded cAF|1 AGF ~G2G:|2 AGF G2A||
|:~B2B BAG|ABG A2 G|FED FGA|GED ~D2D|
B2B BAG|ABG ABc|ded cAF|AGF G3:|
2
X: 2
T: The Besom In Bloom
R: jig
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: Dmix
|:FED ~F2D|GEA D3|FED FGA|GFG AGE|
FED F2G|AFA ~f2e|ded cAF|1 AGF ~G2G:|2 AGF G2A||
|:~B2B BAG|ABG A2 G|FED FGA|GEA ~D2D|
B2B BAG|ABG ABc|ded cAF|ABA G3:|

Three comments

Nice piping jig. With room for variations and small improvments.

Giolcach shléibhe

http://www.irishwildflowers.ie/pages/22a.html
A live, musical bush!:
Walking through the besom in bloom on a very hot July day near Carnac, in Britanny, we heard all the already formed black pods crack open in the sun!

At the Eglantine community garden, in Belfast, we used the whole bush(!) as shakers during a hedge music workshop I organised a month later.

The Besom In Bloom, X:2

Slight variant with a nice “GEAD” figure in both the A and B sections. Got it from both a John Doyle and Colm O’Donnell rendering.