Annotation:Follow Me Down to Carlow (2)
X:1 T:Follow me down to Carlow [2] M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig S:James Goodman (1828─1896) music manuscript collection, S:vol. 3, p. 100. Mid-19th century, County Cork F:http://goodman.itma.ie/volume-three#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=103&z=-4712.5026%2C0%2C17601.0052%2C6432 F:at Trinity College Dublin / Irish Traditional Music Archive goodman.itma.ie Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Amin ABA AGE|E2F G2E|ABA c2d|e2f g2e| ABA A2G|E2F G2E|ABA BAG|A3 A3:| |:e2f g3|e2f g3|ABA A2G|E2F G2E| |1 e2f g3|e2f g3|ABA BAG|A3 A3:| |2 e2f g3|a2f g2e|ABA BAG|A3 A3||
FOLLOW ME DOWN TO CARLOW [2] ("Lean Me Sios Go Ceatair-Loc" or "Lean go Ceatharlach sios me"). AKA - "Follow Me Down," "Follow Me Up (to Carlow)." AKA and see "Ríl Cam (An)," "Crooked Reel (The)," "Dinny Delaney's (2)," "Follow Me Love to Carlow," "Miss Murphy (2)," "Bonnie Annie (3)." Irish, Single Jig, Slide, March (6/8 or 4/4 time) or Reel; New England, Jig or Polka. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Breathnach, Joyce): AAB (Darley & McCall, Mitchell, O'Neill, Tubridy): AABBC (Moylan). Breathnach (1977) states the tune is a 6/8 version of a Scottish reel by Donald Dow (Glen Collection, p. 23 {4th tune}, and Gow's Complete Repository, vol. 1), p. 22 {3rd tune}). Darley & McCall (1914) state that the air is called "Follow Me Up to Carlow" and that there is a tradition that this air was the Clan March of the O'Byrne family. Its first public airing was supposedly when it was played by the Irish war-pipers of Feagh MacHugh (Fiach Mc Hugh O' Byrne) at the fight of Glenmalure (1580) when he attacked the English of the Pale (the environs surrounding Dublin), defended by the troops of Lord Deputy Grey. However, there are "grave doubts" about whether the tune is as old as the 16th century. The tune is contained in vol. 3 (p. 100) of the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper Canon wikipedia:James_Goodman_(musicologist) (vol. iii, p. 101) [1].
