The Road to Lisdoonvarna
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Road to Lisdoonvarna", also known as "All the Way to Galway", "The Galway Girls",<br> "High Way to Galloway", "March of the Tribes to Galway", "Sarsfield March" or "Slash away the<br> Pressing Gang" is an Irish slide (12/8) or single jig (6/8) in E Dorian.<br> Lisdoonvarna, County Clare, was formerly a spa town where Victorian society partook of the<br> mineral waters that were thought to have healing properties. It is located north and<br> inland of the famous coastline Cliffs of Moher, in the rocky region called the Burren.<br> This tune is very similar to O'Keefe's Slide.<br> It was printed in Brody's Fiddler’s Fakebook (1983),<br> Bulmer & Sharpley's Music from Ireland, vol. 4 (1976),<br> Johnson's The Kitchen Musician No. 4: Collection of Fine Tunes (1983),<br> Mallinson's 100 Enduring (1995),<br> Miller & Perron's Traditional Irish Fiddle Music, vol. 1 (1977),<br> Miller & Perron's Irish Traditional Fiddle Music, 2nd Edition (2006),<br> Silberberg's Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern (2002),<br> Spadaro's 10 Cents a Dance (1980) and<br> Vallely's Learn to Play the Tin Whistle with the Armagh Pipers Club, vol. 1.<br> This plays well in medleys with:<br> "O'Keefe's Slide"<br> "The Hillside"<br> "The Swallowtail Jig"<br> all in this section.<br>
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