Get Up Old Woman and Shake Yourself

Basic musical information on this tune.
Rhythm ?	Bars	4-bar phrase structure	Mode ?
Slide	32	AABB	E Minor

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.

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Year Recorded	Track #Tune?	[Album code] Artist. Title (Link to Album Info page). Performers (instruments).
~1986	5#2	[SEgn 1] Seamus Egan. Traditional Music of Ireland. Seamus Egan (flute, banjo, mandolin, whistle, pipes, tres). For this tune: Seamus (mandolin and flute), Siobhan (fiddle).
1994	2.3#1	[BPower] Brendan Power. New Irish Harmonica. Brendan Power (harmonica). For this tune: (D harmonica).
1998	16#1	[CBnds] The County Bounds. Paudie O'Connor (accordion), Noeleen O'Connor (fiddle).
~2006	2#2	[DCB 1] The Doon Céilí Band. Around the World for Sport. Paddy O'Brien (accordion), Kate Dowling (flute), Laura MacKenzie (flute), Brian Miller (flute), Jode Dowling (fiddle), Django Amerson (fiddle), Sean Egan (piano).

Goes Well with . . .

In the above Discography, this tune is:

Played after	On Albums
Lock the Door	SEgn 1
What Ails You?	DCB 1

Played before	On Albums
What Ails You?	SEgn 1
Maid behind the Bar	BPower
Across the Road	CBnds
Come in from the Rain	DCB 1

Bibliography

Here are all transcriptions of this tune considering only the indexed books, listed in chronological order. I have discovered by careful comparison that these are musical matches to this tune as played on the recordings listed above.

Listing of published transcriptions of this tune.
As tune #1091 in [1850] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. [available]
As tune #394 in [1001] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. The Dance Music of Ireland. 1001 Gems. [available]
As tune #91 in [CRE 2] Breandán Breathnach. Ceol Rince na hÉireann 2. [available]
On page 69 of [Krsn] Miles Krassen. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. New and Revised. [available]
As tune #216 in [JOL] Terry Moylan. Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra. Dance Music from the Cork-Kerry Border. [available]
As sgjig #37 in [JKg 3] Josephine Keegan. A Drop in the Ocean. Traditional Irish Tunes Collected by Josephine Keegan.

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 only the recordings and transcriptions listed above (note that I concentrate on sources after 1900): 1903

Tune ID#3746 (Get Up Old Woman and Shake Yourself)

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Discography

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Bibliography