The Bunch of Keys
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Bunch of Keys" is part of a large family of related tunes which includes<br> "The Ewe (or Ewie) with the Crooked Horn", "The Flowers of Limerick" and<br> "Paddy on the Turnpike". It is also known as<br> "Lady Elmer’s Reel", "The Mills are Grinding", "Old Town Reel", "Second Wellington",<br> "Telephone Reel" or "Yellow Heifer". It is an Irish reel in G Dorian (Brody), G Major (O'Neill)<br> or G Major/Mixolydian (Cranitch). The parts are played AABB (Brody), ABC (O'Neill) or<br> AABBCC (Cranitch).<br> "The Bunch of Keys" may refer to the winged seeds (sometimes called keys) of the ash tree<br> (significant in Gaelic, British and Nordic folklore folklore), which hang in bunches before<br> dropping.<br> A version of the reel in two parts was entered into Book 2 of the large<br> c. 1883 music manuscript collection of County Leitrim fiddler and piper<br> Stephen Grier (c. 1824-1894) as an untitled tune.<br> "The Bunch of Keys" was recorded on 78 RPM in 1936 by Sligo/New York fiddler Paddy Killoran.<br> A version called "Second Wellington" was printed by music publishers J. Alexander & Co.<br> in 1826.<br> It was also printed in<br> Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983),<br> Bulmer & Sharpley's Music from Ireland (1974),<br> Cranitch's Irish Fiddle Book (1996) and<br> O'Neill (Krassen) (1976).<br> It was recorded by<br> Bobby Casey on Casey in the Cowhouse (1992),<br> Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin & Patrick Ourceau on Tracin (1999),<br> Jack Wade on Ceili Music From Ireland,<br> Kevin Burke on Sweeney's Dream,<br> Barry, Gorman, Ennis, and Heaney on Irish Music in London Pubs,<br> Mike McHale on The Schoolmaster's House (2000),<br> Paddy Glackin & Paddy Keenan on Doublin' (1978) and<br> Jimmy O'Brien-Moran on Seán Reid's Favourite (1996). <br>
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