This is an old classic Irish tune that doesn’t need to be played especially fast! In fact, Kevin Burke famously plays it really slowly. But I expect we will play it somewhere in between. I’ve put an upbeat of a B that the whistles can manage, but if you prefer (and can), you can play the B an octave lower.

The B part is very long and confusingly quite a few recordings do repeat the B part… But we played it as tune of the month in April 2025, and we voted that it was better with only one-time B part, so I’ve removed the repeat marks!

Lots of places to listen on Youtube:

Mandolin
Fiddle tutorial by Kevin Burke (demonstrating lovely slides)
Uillean pipes and bazouki
Recorder, bazouki, drum and violin
Whistle (and background instruments)
Tin whistle
Fiddle tutorial (play through first)
Another Fiddle tutorial (with Chris Haigh)

Pdf