Annotation:I Bhi Ada

Find traditional instrumental music

Back to I Bhi Ada


I BHI ADA. Scottish, Air. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB’. A puirt a beul (Gaelic mouth music) piece. Although the melody has numerous verses to it, the chorus is simply syllables, and chorus goes:

I bhi ada, u a idalan
I bhi ada, ada li da lu a
I bhi ada, u a idalan
I bhi ada, ada li da lu a

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Martin (Ceol na Fidhle, vol. 4), 1991; p. 20.

Recorded sources:




Back to I Bhi Ada