The Wind That Shakes the Barley
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Wind That Shakes the Barley", in Gaelic "An Ghaoth a Bhogann", also known as "Da Wind Dat
Shakes Da Barley", "The Kerry Lasses", "The Little Pack Of Tailors", "The Pack Of Tailors",
"The Wind That Blows The Barley Down" is a reel in D.
This is known in Irish, Scottish, Shetland, American & New England traditions.
That banjo tab is adapted from Perlman's New England & Irish Fiddle Tunes for Clawhammer Banjo
(1980).
It has been printed in James Stewart Robertson's The Athole
Collection (1884), Keith Norman MacDonald's The Skye Collection (1887),
George Petrie’s Ancient Music of Ireland (1855) and Frank Roche's
The Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music, Volume I (1911).
It has been recorded by Jean Carignan, Martin Carthy, Planxty,
Sean Keane, Cathal McConnel, Alasdair Fraser and others.
This is not the same as the minor mode song also titled
"The Wind That Shakes the Barley".
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