"The Gooseberry Bush" in Gaelic "An Spionán" or "An Tor Spionán" is an Irish reel in D Major (O'Neill), D Mixolydian (Breathnach) or D Major/Mixolydian (Harker/Rafferty, Vallely). The parts are played ABC (O'Neill), AABBC (Breathnach) or AABBCC (Harker/Rafferty, Vallely). A gooseberry bush is a spiny Eurasian bush that has greenish purple-tinged flowers and yields berries that are yellow-green or red-purple in color. The name stems from the association of the berries which were once used to make a sauce for cooking a goose, but the thorns on the plant also resemble a goose's foot. 'Gooseberry Bush' has been used as a euphemism for female pubic hair and genitalia and indeed, countless children were informed in past times that babies were found 'under a gooseberry bush'. This usage may have derived from the French for gooseberry, groseille a marquerea. Marquereau is the word for pimp, while une femme gross is the term given to a pregnant woman. It was printed in Breathnach's CRÉ II (1976), Harker's 300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty (2005), O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903), Treoir, vol. 2 (1988) and Vallely's Armagh Pipers Club Play 50 Reels (1982). It was recorded by Paddy Glackin on In Full Spate (1991), Matt Molloy & Seane Keane on Contentment is Wealth (1985), Mick Moloney on Strings Attached and Mary Rafferty on Hand Me Downs (2002).