the Wind That Shakes the Barley

X: 1
T: the Wind That Shakes the Barley
R: reel
O: c.1800
N: May be an Irish variant of Largo's Fairy Dance Reel (Nathaniel Gow 1809)
B: Henry Robson's "The Northern Minstrel's Budget", c.1800
B: Joshua Gibbons (Lincolnshire) private MS c.1825
B: Surenne (Dance Music of Scotland), 1852; pg. 41
B: Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; pg. 89
B: MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; pg. 35
B: RSCDS 21-8(II) (in A)
Z: 1999 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
M: C|
L: 1/8
K: D
|: "D"A2AB AFED | "G"B2BA B2d2 | "D"A2AB AFED |\
[1 "Em"gfed "A7"B2d2 :|[2 "Em"gfed "A7"Bcde |]
|: "D"f2fd "Em"g2ge | "D"f2fd "A7"ecBA |\
[1 "D"f2fd "Em"g2ge | "D"afed "A7"Bcde :|\
[2 "D"defg "Bm"afba | "Em"gfed "A7"BcdB |]

Alternative sources for this tune:

• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/Contra/reel/WindThatShakesTheBarley_2/0000
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/Scotland/Wind_That_Shakes_the_Barley/0003
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/Scotland/reel/Wind_That_Shakes_the_Barley_RSCDS-D-16-2/0000
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/session/Slow_Scottish/Wind_That_Shakes_the_Barley/Wind_That_Shakes_the_Barley_RSCDS-D-16-2/0000
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/session/reel/Wind_That_Shakes_the_Barley-D-16-2,3/0003

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