The Red Haired Lass
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Red-Haired Lass", also known as "The Crusheen", "Jim Seery's", "The Kildoney Lasses",<br> "Peter Kennedy's Fancy", "Pigeon on the Gate" or "Shearing the Sheep" is an Irish reel in<br> G Major (Cranitch, Flaherty, Moylan, Mulvihill, Taylor) or A Major (Cranitch).<br> The parts are played AB (Cranitch, Flaherty, Moylan, Taylor) or AA’BB (Mulvihill).<br> It is a popular session reel, correctly classified as a single reel. It is a classic tune<br> recorded during the 78 RPM era by the master Sligo fiddler James Morrison with Leitrim<br> flute player John McKenna (who paired it with another single reel they called "The Tailor's<br> Thimble”). The rather obscure fiddler Joseph Tansey of Gurteen, County Sligo, also recorded<br> the tune in the 78 RPM era, calling it "The Crusheen" (Crusheen is the name of a village in<br> County Clare, but the title could also be an Anglicized version of the Irish crúiscín,<br> meaning 'jug'). The reel was entered into Book 2 of the large c. 1883 music manuscript<br> collection of County Leitrim fiddler and piper Stephen Grier (c. 1824-1894) under the title<br> "Pigeon on the Gate".<br> It was printed sources in Cranitch's Irish Fiddle Book (1996),<br> Flaherty's Trip to Sligo (1990),<br> Moylan's Johnny O’Leary of Sliabh Luachra (1994),<br> Mulvihill's 1st Collection (1986) and<br> Taylor's Through the Half-Door (1992).<br> It was recorded by John Wynne & John McEvoy on Pride of the West (2007),<br> James Morrison & John McKenna (1929) (78 RPM),<br> John Whelan & Eileen Ivers on Fresh Takes (1987)<br> Shaskeen on Joys of Life (1983) and<br> Shaskeen Live,<br> Micho Russell on The Limestone Rock (1993),<br> The Chieftains on Water from the Well (2000),<br> The Kilfenora Céilí Band on Live in Lisdoonvarna (2002),<br> Brendan P. Lynch on Irish Traditional Fiddle Music from the Heart of Fingal (2005),<br> and many others.<br>
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