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Annotation:Johnny When You Die (1)
X: 1 T: Johnny When You Die S: Seamus Creagh & Jackie Daly M: 4/4 L: 1/8 R: reel K: Gmaj |:eBdB e2 dB|A2 GA BA A2|[1 eBdB e2dB|A2 GA BGG2:|[2 GB~B2 GBdB|A2 GA BG G2|| |:g2 fg egd2|g2 fg eaa2|[1 g2 fg e2dB|A2 GA BG G2:|[2 gbag e2dB|A2 GA BG G2||
JOHNNY WHEN YOU DIE [1]. AKA and see "Come into the Room I Want You," "Gearrchailiu Chontae Mhuigheo," "Girls of County Mayo, "Hag's Reel (The)," "Mayo Lasses (The)," "Old Maids of Galway (1) (The)," "Johnny's Gone to France (3)," "Paddy’s Gone to France," "Turf House Reel," "West Mabou Reel." Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A set of words is sung to this tune. The tonality shifts in the tune, beginning in the relative minor ('E' minor, in the key of G) and resolving to the major. Sliabh Luachra accordion player Johnny O'Leary usually paired this tune with "Anything for John Joe" and referred to them jointly as "The Sliabh Luachra Reels." See also the similar tunes "The Mayo Lasses" and the Cape Breton "West Mabou Reel" (attributed to Dan {Domhnull Iain an Táillear} Beaton {1856-1919}). Paul de Grae reports that the melody was called by his late friend fiddler Paddy O'Sullivan of north Kerry "Into the room, I want you," and explains that fiddlers were often paid with drink (for playing at house dances, etc.). O'Sullivan's title refers to an invitation into the "room" or parlour to be given a mug of porter. See also the related first part of "Over the Moor to Peggy."
