I definitely don’t consider myself a composer, but I did try to write a couple of tunes over the years. Here is one, “Lily’s Jig”, which I wrote shortly after my first daughter, Lily, was born in 2011.
X:1
T:Lily’s Jig
C:Charles Monod
M:6/8
R:Jig
K:Edor
|:eBB e2B|gfe f2d|eBB gfg|aba age|
eBB e2B|gfe f2d|efg aga|bge edB:||
|e2B efg|f2d fga|g2e gab|bge edB|
eBB efg|f2a bge|edB AFA|Bed e2d|
e2B efg|fed fga|gfe gab|bge edB|
eBB efg|f2a bge|edB AFA|Bed e2d||
I learned “The Humours of Lissadell” after a weekend trip to Inishbofin with Tom Delany, Caroline Keane and a few others in 2014, it was like the “tune of the weekend”. It is quite a common session tune and often followed by “The Queen of May”.
“I Ne’er Shall Wean Her” is a beautiful jig that I learned from Christy McNamara’s album “The House I Was Reared In”. Christy is an amazing photographer as well and he has taken some great photos of musicians over the past 30 years.
“Doctor Gilbert’s” is a great reel which I associate with Terry Bingham and Christy Barry. There is also another version of this tune known as “The Dispute At The Crossroads”, is associated with the late John Doherty, the fiddle player from Donegal.
