Private Ass And Cart reel

This is a great little D-tune that I just learned from the Kathleen Collins album. Thought I’d share it with you guys.

Great wee tune. Sounds good if you play the repeat of the 1st part in the higher octave, or even only in bars 2 & 4.

This is “Callaghan’s / The Doon” as posted by Dow, but in an anti-social key [ for flute players, anyway ].

Hmm, the B-part’s a bit different though isn’t it?

I think this is the one Kathleen Collins recorded(in D) as Private Ass and Cart, which was said in the sleeve notes to be a version of Callaghans.

The A-part is almost identical to the Dmaj setting of one of the Doon reels https://thesession.org/tunes/1731. B-part’s completely different though. Nice tune.

Key signature: G Major
Submitted on June 5th 2003 by Dow.
https://thesession.org/tunes/1731

Asociated with Kitty Cunningham of Donegal.

Posted by LH in a recent discussion thread:

X:135
T:Private Ass and Cart
R:reel
H:a version of “Callahan’s” - from Barrell Rafferty
N:follows #129 Mike Flynn’s
D:Mike and Mary Rafferty, the Old Fireside Music.
Z:Lesl
M:C|
Q:1/2=70
K:D
F~F2A GE~E2|FDDF ABAG|F~F2D GE~E2|AzGE EDDE|
F~F2D GE~E2|FDDF AzAG|F~F2D GE~E2|AzGE EDDz||
(3Bcd ec d2ed|cAGE ~A3z|(3Bcd ec dged|cAGE EDDz|
(3Bcd ec dzed|cAGE ~A3B|czcd e~e2d|cAGE EDDE||

And the Kathleen Collins version I found on the net:

X:1
T: Private Ass & Cart
S: Kathleen Collins
Z: transcribed by B.Black
N: a version of “Callahan’s”
Q: 350
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: D
F2 AF GE E2 | FADF ABAG | F2 AF GE E2 | ABGE FD D2 :|
cdec d2 cB | AE E2 AE E2 | cdec d2 cB | ABGE FD D2 |
cdec d2 cB | AE E2 AEAB | cBcd efed | cAGE FD D2 ||

I also found this in the Irtrad archives, from O’Neill’s in a different key:

X: 1
T: Nellie O’Donovan
M: C|
L: 1/8
N: “collected by Cronin”
B: O’Neill’s 1394
Z: Transcribed by Bob Safranek
K: G
B2 Bd dcAc | BGGB d2 cA | B2 Bd dcAc | d2 cA AGGA |
B2 Bd dcAc | BGGB d2 cA | BABd dcAc | dBcA AGGe ||
fgaf gfeg | fdcA Adde | fgaf gfeg | fdcA AGGe |
fgaf gfeg | fdcA Adde | fefg abag | fdcA AGGA |]

Just found another one. But: hornpipe?!
Maybe he meant fling… That would figure. It’d make a great fling. ‘c’ can you work your magic on this one?

X: 49
T:Gan Ainm
M:4/4
L:1/8
S:Dermy Diamond, Belfast (fiddle)
R:Hornpipe
D:Session tape - Mullach, Clare 1985
Z:Bernie Stocks
K:G
B2dB c2Ac | BGGB d3c | B2dB c2Ac | dBcA BGGA | B2dB c2Ac | BGGB d3c |\
B2dB c2Ac |1 dBcA BGGA :|2 dBcA BGGg || fgaf gefd | cAAB c3g | fgaf gbag |\
fdcA BGGg | fgaf gefd | cAAB c3g | fgaf gbag | fdcA BGG2 :|

Made you look, ‘c’ 🙂

How about this:

X: 1
T: Private Ass & Cart
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: fling
K: Emaj
G2G>B A>FF>A|G<EE>G B>cB>A|G2G>B A>FF>A|1 B2A>F G<EE>F:|2 B2A>F G<EE>e||
d>ef>d e2d>c|B>F (3FFF B<FB>c|d>ef>d e2d>c|B>AF>A G<EE>e|
d>ef>d e2d>c|B<FF>F B>FB>c|d>cd>e f2f>e|d>BA>F G<EE>F||

Hey, not quite, it was this that made me look:

“Just found another one. But: hornpipe?!” ~ but you are the source. Now to check this out… 😉

It was only E Major because, I suspect, it was probably old tuning…

R: highland fling
K: D Major
|: D>E |
F2 F>A G>EE>G | F<DD>F A>BA>G |
F2 F>A G>EE>G | A2 G>E F<D :|
D>d |
c>de>c d2 c>B | A>E (3EEE A<EA>B |
c>de>c d2 c>B | A>GE>G F<DD>d |
c>de>c d2 c>B | A<EE>E A>EA>B |
c>Bc>d e2 e>d | c>AG>E F<D ||

It’s your notes, just transposed and me adding a lead-in and stacking them for bar comparison… While we’re at it, I’ll have a Long Island Ice Tea… 🙂

I quite like it in E as posted in the original submission. Wonder what the source was…

Not a great key for flutes but nice for the EC - have you tried it on EC, ‘c’?

I think I’m going to play it in E. My reason being that the Doon/Callaghan’s is sometimes played in sessions I go to, and it most often appears in D, as opposed to G which is how I posted it. If I were to start Kitty Sheain’s in D, it’s likely everyone would just go ahead and play that B-part. In E, it’s more likely that the fiddlers would pick it up as a new tune.

by “that B-part” I meant “the B-part for the Doon/Callaghan’s”. It made sense at time of writing…

I just did a quick google search, and it looks like the source for the original posting was probably Altan’s Runaway Sunday. I don’t have that album myself so I can’t confirm this. I dearly wish people would state their source(s) after posting a tune. It’s not much to ask, really. I wouldn’t necessarily expect anyone to do that in a session of course, since session playing is a one off spontaneous event, but posting abc on an internet database intended to be a reference for international users is kind of different.

“Nellie O’Donovan’s Fling”
R: highland fling
K: G Major
|: G>A |
B2 d>B c2 A>c | B>G (3GGG d>B (3cBA |
B>Gd>B c2 (3ABc | d>Bc<A G2 :|
|: G>g |
f>ga>f g>ef>d | c>A (AAA c2 A>g |
[1 f2 (3agf g2 (3bag | f>dc<A B>G :|
[2 f2 (bag f<de<c | d>Bc<A G2 ||

“Private Ass and Cart”
R: highland fling
K: D Major
|: D>E |
F>D (3FGA G>E (3EEE | F<DD>F A2 A>G |
F2 F>A G>EE>G | A<FG>E D2 :|
|: A>d |
(3Bcd e>c d2 e>d | c<AG>E A2 A>d |
[1 (3Bcd (3edc d>fe>d | c<AG>E D2 :|
[2 f2 (3edc (3ded e>d | c<AG>E D2 ||

What B-part are you on about? I will, of course, do as you suggest… My eyes are glazing over ~ nope ~ they were already glazed over… “Master!”

I was on about the one you yourself posted a link to.

“Master?” 😲

Go here for another transcription in D https://thesession.org/tunes/963.

Go here for another transcription in E https://thesession.org/tunes/3717.

It similar to this reel but varies in the second part.

https://thesession.org/tunes/1731

Robbie Hannan & Paddy Glackin start of their album Seidean Si with The Bonny Bunch of Ferns but the above tune (Callaghan’s) is actually what they play.

Originally i´m lookong for “the keady piper”, great recording on ceol is peob. (Track 7 No 3not track 10.)Tiarnan told me this title “ bonny bunch…“ Got this abc years ago from … I dont know it anymore, but its only a basic version. Try to learn it by ear now…

here you will find something more:

http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/BONN_BONNY.htm#BONNY_BUNCH_OF_FERNS

Specially the second part is very similar to Nelly Donovan No 19 in the dance music of Willy Clancy
Kurt

i´ve got it back! here is the source:

http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/NE.htm#NELLIE_DONOVAN

but i prefer the Willy Clancy version….

Watch Mike & Mary Rafferty play this reel: http://comhaltas.ie/music/detail/comhaltaslive_326_3_mike_rafferty_and_co_play_two_reels/

have this tune as ‘The Private Ass and Cart’, another nice name for it.

David Taylor

Go here for another transcription in G https://thesession.org/tunes/8756

Go here for another transcription in E https://thesession.org/tunes/8756

I mean G

Go here for the above-mentioned Private Ass & Cart transcribed in D https://thesession.org/tunes/963

Go here for another transcription in E https://thesession.org/tunes/3717

It’s certainly NOT “The Dance Of The Honeybees”. Who’s the shmuck who put that in as a title ?

Someone should write jiggyhobbit ~ who seems to be another one that does the dump-and-run, not leaving any comment. Well, we can only try. If there’s not, then maybe Jeremy will remove that alternate title? 😏

Done! Now we wait………

O’Neill’s #483.

Duplicate (I think):
https://thesession.org/tunes/3717#setting16694 (O’Neill’s #1394)

I learned it in E (as Kitty Sheain’s) from an Altan recording. Piper Tiarnan Ó Duinnchinn plays it the key of G:
https://youtu.be/8blbyNHgpO8?t=2m1s

play video

A cousin:
https://thesession.org/tunes/1731

This is how Mike Rafferty and Willie Kelly play the tune. Here’s a youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uudkrL4C7VI

play video

Niall Kenny’s setting (from John Kelly) X4 probably better belongs with https://thesession.org/tunes/3717 Kitty Sheain’s.

Above comment was meant for https://thesession.org/tunes/1731 Cal Callaghan’s

See https://thesession.org/recordings/1745 Ó Riada Sa Gaiety last track for these two tunes/versions played in immediate succession (sandwiched by Ríl Mhór Bhaile An Chalaidh and the Shaskeen.) John Kelly (probable source for Raveled Hank of Yarn) was part of the group.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_nqFPvhPZo

play video

When played in E, this is a great tune for really digging in with the fiddle bow, that growling vibe; double stops and all sorts of little things you can do.