Raglan Road Instrumental

curry-muff

Hey, was wondering if anyone knows where I could find an instrumental version of Raglan Road, it's needed for a wedding next week and the girl would like to practice her version this weekend. I've searched the web and couldn't find anything of decent quality, the youtube versions all seem pretty poor quality

colin29

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElF_M8F_4xI&feature=related

trad

Here's a link with the sheet music

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/10192

The tune is "Dawning of the Day" and is a march but is played slower. It is transcribed here in Waltz time.

The story goes that Patrick Kavanagh met Luke Kelly in a pub (where else) and Kavanagh had written Raglan Road as a poem and wanted to put music to it. Luke had a look at it and figured if Dawning of the Day was slowed down to waltz tempo it would fit perfectly.

The fact that the last 3 words of the poem are "dawn of day" might have helped.

curry-muff

colin29 wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElF_M8F_4xI&feature=related

Thanks very much, never thought of searching for it as Gaeilge, this should do nicely