Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 723 (Give Me Your Hand)

RhythmBarsMode
March52G Major
Transcription of first 2 bars of Give Me Your Hand
 about these two bars

These two bars are the start of my transcription of how this tune was played – the first time through – on the recording Plx 1 (details in the Discography below).

Where do you get the tune titles?
Titles given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Give Me Your Hand / Tabhair Dom Do Lámh / Tabhair Dom Do Lamh / Tabair Dam Do Lamh / Da Mihi Manum (also as song) (composed by Rory Dall O'Cathain / Rory Dall O'Cahan [Blind Roger O'Keane])
What do the "track#tune" codes mean?

cd Discography

Here are all recordings of this tune considering only the indexed recordings. I have discovered by careful listening that these sources are in fact musically the same tune, regardless of the tune titles they use, key changes, retuning, etc. They are listed in order of when they were recorded.

Year
Recorded		 Track
#Tune		 [Album code] Artist. Title. Primary musicians (instruments). Album details
and contents
~19731#2[Plx 1] Planxty. Planxty. Liam O'Flynn (pipes, whistle), Andy Irvine (vocals, mandola, mandolin, hurdy-gurdy, harmonica), Donal Lunny (vocals, bouzouki, guitar, bodhrán), Christy Moore (vocals, guitar, harmonica, bodhrán).View album details
~197910#2[Plx 4] Planxty. Collection. Unidentified on this reissue.View album details
~1987[Ch JG] The Chieftains / James Galway. In Ireland. View album details

Bibliography

Here are all transcriptions of this tune under any title whatsoever – considering only the indexed books – listed in chronological order. I have discovered by careful comparison that these are very similar to this tune as played on the recordings listed above.

As tune #406 in [1850] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. [available]
On page 60 of [IMM] Francis O'Neill. Irish Minstrels and Musicians. [available]
As tune #83 in volume 1 of [B&S] D[avid] Bulmer and N[eil] Sharpley. Music from Ireland. 4 vols.
As tune #25 in volume 1 of [AW] Eithne Vallely. Learn to Play the Tin Whistle.
On page 60 of [RW] Robin Williamson. The Penny Whistle Book. [available]
On page 120 of [FF] David Brody. The Fiddler's Fakebook. [available]
As tune #97 in [DM 2] Dave Mallinson. 100 Enduring Irish Session Tunes. [available]
As waltz #3 in [Cobb] Dan Cobb. Cobb's Music of Ireland. [available]

If you are considering using the above transcriptions to help you learn this tune, I invite you to check these practical Tips for Learning Irish Traditional Music. See also: So why do you bother indexing books and abc?

Year of the oldest source for this tune, considering the recordings and transcriptions listed above (note that I concentrate on sources after 1900): 1903
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