"All the Way to Galway"
(All the ways to Galway, An Bhó chiarraloch, The Kerry Cow, Yankee Doodle Dandy.)
Reel, March or Air, D, AABB.
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MIDI
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Playing or Personal Notes:
Part of a set; Road to California, All the Way to Galway, Year-End Two-Step, and Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine.
Good with Mandolin.
History
The Fiddler's Companion reports that this is normally played D Mixolydian (see the var_abc file for a version). It claims that the air was set to a Jacobite era (early 18th century) song and was the precursor to "Yankee Doodle," which it resembles, particularly in the 'B' part. The Scottish strathspey "A(ll) the Way to Galloway" is a relative, and "The Road to Lisdoonvarna [2]" is a variant. The version we are doing, however, is the FC's variant [3], which it describes as "A simplified major-key variation of the reel given in #1".
On the Web:
| Fiddler's Companion | IrishTune |
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