Tune of the week

Well last night was fun!
The gang from Vancouver's Wolf and Hound started this tune up last night. After they left on the last ferry, I played the few bars that I knew for those that remained because I've always wanted to learn the tune and it's name. No one knew.
The tune is An Phis Fliuch. The very polite translation is "The Choice Wife", but it's also known as "The Wet Fanny", and well, you get the idea.

Zoe Conway plays it here:

Rakish Paddy's Old Bush

Oops, yer right Keona. The B-part of Rakish Paddy does go up to and above A. For years I've been playing the B-part of this tune wrong. I've just been playing the B-part of The Old Bush with only three note changes, all the while thinking: "Gee, these tunes are sure similar."
Here's the side by side, for remediation purposes. See if you can spot the "roof shape" in the notes. I also recommend that Chris learn Rakish Paddy for remediation purposes. It's a better tune than you remember, Chris ;-)

Rakish Paddy

The Old Bush

I made the comment yesterday that I saw the shape of a roof in the B-part of Rakish Paddy, which caught Emily's interest briefly. No, Emily, I don't share your strong visual sense with tunes. Wish I did. For me, the shape is literally in the dots of the notation.
I don't really see notation any more. Tunes are more like, well, tunes. But in those instances when I've incorrectly made up some variation or I can't keep similar tunes separate, the little shapes of relative pitch help.

Here's the tune that Neil suggested for homework.

Molly Put The Kettle On

I stumbled across my old tunebook

Looking through the web to see what had become of Kavana's Craic over the years, I discovered that someone had reposted a tunebook I had on my site way back in 2000. I had completely fogotten about that. There are 268 tunes in the collection, and that was pretty much everything I knew back then. You can download the .txt file which should be able to be read by an ABC reader.