Original tune by Joe K. Walsh, performed live with Molly Tuttle & John Mailander at Deep End Sessions, April 2017. copyright Joe K. Walsh & Deep End Sessions.
As a Dooney from Connacht whose danced like an ocean of waves many times its great to finally get some appreciation for my years of effort! Whether intended or not I'm taking it!
Hope these 3 get together again soon, they're magic. Molly's a treat, from that joyful bobbing up and down, to a technical prowess few can equal. Joe's got the genius' distracted vacant stare, like he's so deep in the music, he forgot what to do with his face (I know I forgot what to do with mine). And John makes every perfect choice with his solos -- he IS the fiddler of Dooney. What a great trio!
WHEN I play on my fiddle in Dooney, Folk dance like a wave of the sea; My cousin is priest in Kilvarnet, My brother in Moharabuiee. I passed my brother and cousin: They read in their books of prayer; I read in my book of songs I bought at the Sligo fair. When we come at the end of time, To Peter sitting in state, He will smile on the three old spirits, But call me first through the gate; For the good are always the merry, Save by an evil chance, And the merry love the fiddle And the merry love to dance: And when the folk there spy me, They will all come up to me, With ‘Here is the fiddler of Dooney!’ And dance like a wave of the sea. (William Butler Yeats)
Thanks! Nice to give the name of the author of the poem - lovely melody on wonderful lines written by Yeats, published in "The Wind among the Reeds" 1899 - www.elbowmusic.org/post/2015/06/13/the-fiddler-of-dooney
