Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Album Details for The Pure Drop by Seamus Ennis

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Artist NameSeamus Ennis
Album TitleThe Pure Drop
MusiciansSeamus Ennis (pipes).
Source and
other information		Tara TARACD 1002/9, [1995]. Half of a double CD. Reissue of Tara 1002, 1973. Notes by Seamus Ennis and Liam O'Flynn.

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Every Irish tune on this album was identified by carefully comparing this recorded performance with all other tunes in the Irish Traditional Music Tune Index—by comparing musically, disregarding tune titles. The track and tune numbers below, furthermore, correspond to what you actually hear on this album. This page is thus more reliable than the original album notes, track titles listed by iTunes/Media Player, or other Web sites, all of which usually suffer from errors.

TrackTuneTune ID#RhythmTitles used for this tune (and other notes)
11 Tune Info
797		 Reel Hand Me Down the Tackle / Sín Chugam Anuas an Tácla / Hand Down the Tackle / The Pure Drop / Tom Steele / Tomás Stíl / Thomas Steele / The Hielander's Kneebuckle / The Hielanman's Kneebuckle / Búcla Glúine an Híleantóra / Reidy Johnson's / Reidy Johnston's / Drogheda Lasses (4th in set Humours of Galway on FG 3) (compare settings included here of The Drogheda Lasses, and The Pure Drop; compare very distantly Callan Lasses #4741)
2 Tune Info
641		 Reel Flax in Bloom, The / The Flaxen Bloom / The Lilly White (2nd part used as intro on KB UC) (also with a 3rd part, also as a fling)
21 Tune Info
592		 Air An Leanbh Sidhe / An Leanbh Sí / An Leanbh / The Fairy Boy / Fairy Child
31 Tune Info
780		 Hpipe Groves Hornpipe, The / The Groves / Grove's Hornpipe (compare 1st and 3rd parts with the Bunch of Keys #245 and its relatives)
2 Tune Info
565		 Hpipe Dwyer's Hornpipe / O'Dwyer's Hornpipe (1st in set Cornphíopa Uí Chaoimh / O'Keeffe's Hornpipes on JOL 2, which setting skips the 3rd part)
41 Tune Info
1484		 March O'Sullivan the Great / The Officer on Guard / I Won't Be a Nun / I Wont Be a Nun / Won't Be a Nun (also with a 3rd part) (compare Irish Freedom March #3104) (also as songs I'll Marry and I'll Never Be a Nun / The Better that He Longed for Never Came)
51 Tune Info
2059		 JigD When Sick Is It Tea You Want? / When Sick Is It Tea That You Want? / When Sick Is It Tea You Want / When Sick, Is It Tea You Want? / The One-Legged Man / The Penniless Traveller / Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself / Come from the Devil and Shake Yourself / The Irish Newsman
2 Tune Info
856		 JigD Humours of Drinagh, The / The Humors of Drinagh / Pléaráca Dhraignhí / Farewell to Gurteen / Philip Martin's (1st in set The Colliers' Set on CTL 8) (also with 4 parts)
61 Tune Info
256		 Song Cois Abhainn Na Séad / By the River of Gems (also as air)
2 Tune Info
1690		 JigSl Rocky Road to Dublin, The / Rocky Road to Dublin / Black Burke / Black Rock (also with various 3rd parts, also doubled, also in A Mixolydian)
71 Tune Info
91		 SgJig Ask My Father / Ask Me Father / Fiafraigh de m'Athair é / The Four Courts (1st in set Away with Ye on Ch 6) (also singled, also as hornpipe, included here) (compare With All My Heart #2645 and Johnny Allen #986)
2 Tune Info
1552		 SgJig Pat Ward's / Pat Ward's Jig / The Highlander's Kneebuckle / Búcla Glúine an Híleantóra / Leather Buttons / A Galway Reel (also as fling and reel, also in G) (compare jig Pathway to the Well #1553)
81 Tune Info
1792		 Air Song of the Books, The / The Story of the Books / Amhrán na Leabhar / Valentia Harbour / Valencia Harbour / Cuan Bhéil Inse (also as song) (composed by a schoolmaster named Riordan, text by Tomás Rua Ó Súilleabháin)
91 Tune Info
1828		 Hpipe Standing Abbey, The / The Kingston / Ricks Hornpipe (also in F)
2 Tune Info
1823		 Hpipe Stack of Barley, The / Stack of Barley / The Little Stack of Barley / An Staicín Eorna / An Staicín Eornan / The Stacks of Barley / Little Mary Cassidy / Evening Was Waning / Patrick Condon's Vision (1st in set Stack of Barley Set on CLnn 2; 2nd in set Hooley with the Herd on TWnch) (also in D, also in C, also as barndance, also as song Kerry Long Ago) (compare The Stack #5055)
101 Tune Info
1119		 Reel Leitrim Thrush, The (also in C)
2 Tune Info
1305		 Reel Miss Johnson's / Miss Johnson / Miss Johnson of Houghton Hall / Miss Johnston / Miss Johnston's / Iníon Mhic Eoin / Iníon Mhic Sheáin / Reedy Johnson's / The Mountainy Man / The Muster Bank / The Munster Bank / Rock the Cradle / Belvidere / The Cow That Ate the Blanket No. 2 (1st in set The Teetotaler on TCB 4) (also with reversed parts)
111 Tune Info
130		 March Return from Fingal, The / Fingal March / The March to the Battle / The Battle of Aughrim
121 Tune Info
307		 Slide Chase Me Charlie / Lean mé, a Chathail / Aunty Mary Had a Canary / The Cock o' the North (also in A or D, also as single jig) (compare Cock O' The North #3144 and therefore also compare Danny Ab's Slide #2095)
2 Tune Info
511		 Slide Dingle Regatta, The / Tom Billy's Favourite / Denis Murphy's Slide (1st part same as 1st part of 3-part Dingle Regatta #4520)
131 Tune Info
2066		 Air White Connor's Daughter, Nora
141 Tune Info
1781		 JigD Sliabh Russell / Slieve Russell / Slieve Russel / Coleman's Jig / Congress Jig (also in E Dorian)
2 Tune Info
1772		 JigD Sixpenny Money / Airgead Réalach / The Madcap
151 Tune Info
1832		 Reel Stay for Another While / Stay Another While / Stay and Have Another One / The Fair-haired Girl / The Dark Girl in Blue (also in Major)
2 Tune Info
878		 Reel I Have No Money / Táim Gan Airgead / Níl Aon Airgead Agam / Miss Hamilton / Miss Hamilton's (mislabeled on CTL 3 as Tear the Calico) (also doubled, also in C or G)
15(2:28)3 Tune Info
1839		 Reel Stony Steps / Stoney Steps / The Stony Steps / The Stoney Step / An Chéim Cloiche / The Twelfth Lock / The Cushogue (mislabeled on MM 3 as Michael Dwyer's Favourite) (also in Bb, also doubled)
161 Tune Info
236		 Air Brown Thorn, The / An Droighneán Donn / An Droighnean Donn / Droighnean Donn / An Draighneán Donn / Draoighnean Donn / An Droigheán Donn / Broighnean Donn / The Brown Thorntree / St. Senanus and the Lady / Why Do Lovely Virgins Mourn? / The Bark Is on the Swelling Shore / The Sloe Tree (also as song, included here)
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