On our final Omicron-Era Virtual Session tonight (Monday, February 7th) we’ll be playing virtual bingo! The list of prizes is below. We will attempt to keep this up to date as sessioneers win these prizes! In order to get your custom bingo board, click here.

• A 45-minute online lesson with your choice of Tune Supply teaching artists

• A Tuneogram delivered to you or your choice of gift recipient (2)

• Your choice of a custom-transcribed tune printed on a shipping label

• A batch of cookies made by Caitlin and sent to you through the postal service (2)

• A Warbelow Range CD or download

• A Manhattan Island Sessions CD or download (2)

• A $25 Mary O’s gift card

Here’s the setlist for the June 17th session:

Crested Hen (Em)/Rakish Paddy (Am)/Golden Stud (Em)
Timmy Clifford (G)/Banks of Lough Gowna (Bm)/Nightingale (Am)
My Former Wife (Am)/The Killavil (Em)/Happy to Meet Sorry to Part (G)
Jenny Picking Cockles (Dmix)/The Earl’s Chair (D)
Preston’s (G)/Crossing the Shannon (D)/Green Fields of Rossbeigh (Em)
Lark in the Mountain (G)/Devlin’s (Bm)/Cordal Jig (D)
The Frieze Britches (Dmix)/The Old Favourite (G)
The Rainy Day (Am)/The Shaskeen (G)
The Wedding Reel (D)/The House of Hamill (Em)
The Destitution (Am)/Mál Bhán Ní Chulieannan (Am)
John O’Dreams

“Cockles and Mussels” Lyrics for June 10th session!

In Dublin's fair city
Where the girls are so pretty
I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone
As she wheeled her wheel-barrow
Through streets broad and narrow
Crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive, oh!"

Alive, alive, oh
Alive, alive, oh
Crying "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive, oh"

She was a fishmonger
And sure 'twas no wonder
For so were her father and mother before
And they both wheeled their barrows
Through streets broad and narrow
Crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive, oh!"

Alive, alive, oh
Alive, alive, oh
Crying "cockles and mussels, alive, alive, oh"

She died of a fever
And no one could save her
And that was the end of sweet Molly Malone
But her ghost wheels her barrow
Through streets broad and narrow
Crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive, oh!"

Alive, alive, oh
Alive, alive, oh
Crying "cockles and mussels, alive, alive, oh"

Here’s the setlist for the June 3rd session:

Maids of Mount Kisco (Am)/Jackie Coleman’s (D)/The Mountain Top (G)
Boys of Bluehill (D)/Off to California (G)
Boys of the Town (G)/Tar Road to Sligo (Bm)
The Chattering Magpie (G)/The Sailor’s Bonnet (D)
Farewell to Connaught (Dmix)/The Ashplant (Em)/McGettrick’s (G)
King of the Pipers (Dmix)/The Rambler (A)/Cordal Jig (D)

Here’s the setlist for the May 20th session with Caitlin and Chris:

Maison de Glace (D)/The Old Flail (G)/Stan Chapman's (A)
The Oak Tree (D)/Man of the House (Em)/Mason's Apron (A)
The Frost is All Over (D)/The Coming of Spring (Em)
The Jolly Roving Tar (D)/The Dances at Kinvara (G)
Crabs in the Skillet (Gm)/Miss Crawford (Gm)
Road to Boston (D)/Rakes of Mallow (G)/Maids of Ardagh (D)
Garryowen (D)/The Orphan (Em)/Kerfunten (D)
Farewell to Whally Range (F#m)/An Phis Fhliuch (D)/Reddican’s Mother (D)
Alexander’s (D)/Cronin’s (G)
Porthole of the Kelp (Dm)/Moving Cloud (F)/Julia Delaney (Dm)

Here’s the setlist for the May 7th session with Cillian Vallely and Matt Mancuso:

My Darling Asleep (D)/The Black Rogue (D)/Hardiman’s Fancy (D)
The Boys of Ballycastle (Em)/Mrs. Galvin’s (D)
Fisherman’s Slip Jig (D)/Give Us a Drink of Water (G)/Hardiman the Fiddler (D)
The KIllarney Boys of Pleasure (Em)/ The Killavil Fancy (G)/Dan Breen’s (Am)
Rolling in the Ryegrass (D)/The Crooked Road to Dublin (G)/Toss the Feathers (Em)

Here’s the setlist for the April 1st session with Katie McNally and Neil Pearlman:

Spootiskerry/Sleep Soond Ida Mornin/St. Kilda Wedding Reel
Miss Lyall’s Strathspey/Miss Lyall’s Reel/Jack Daniel’s
Neil Gow’s Lament for the Death of His Second Wife
I Won’t Do the Work/Drummond Castle/Famous Baravan
Hughie Shorty’s/Road to Errogie

Here’s the setlist for the April 15th session with John Redmond and Matt Stapleton:

Earl's Chair (Bm)/Galway Rambler (G)/Torn Jacket (D)
Timmy Clifford's (G)/Stan Chapman's (A)/Millers Maggot (G)
Farewell to Ireland (D)/Hare's Paw (G)/Spootiskerry (G)
Ballydesmond Polkas (Am/G/Am)
Lady Ann Montgomery (G)/Flogging Reel (G)/Boyne Hunt (D)

Here’s the setlist for the April 8th session with Mari Black and Frances Cunningham:

Roaring Barmaid (G)/The Road to Banff (D)/Stan Chapman's (A)
The Tempest (Dm)/Man of the House (Em)/Frank's Reel (A)
The Fairy Jig (G)/Another Jig Will Do (D)
Da Slockit Light (D)/The Rights of Man (Em)/The Reconciliation (A)
Union Street Session (D)/Brenda Stubbert's (Am)/High Road to Linton (A)

Here’s the setlist for the April 22nd session with Nuala Kennedy and Tara Breen:

Queen of the West (D)/Daisy Bell (D)/Concert Reel (G)
Happy Are We All Together (song) (C)
Legacy Jig (F)/Headwood Crossing (C)
Round the House and Mind the Dresser (G)/The Roscommon (Em)/Ships are Sailing (Bm)
Travers’ #2 (Am)/Fred Finn’s (A)/The Holly Bush (E mix)

MONSTER SESSION Setlist!

Na Ceannabháin Bhána (G)/The Black Rogue (D)/The Humours of Lisheen (G)
The Galway Rambler (G)/The Bucks of Oranmore (D)
Shandon Bell’s (D)/Swallow’s Nest (Em)/Donnybrook Fair (G)
The Ship in Full Sail (G)/The Bohola Jig (D)/The Gentleman’s Heart to the Ladies (A)
Christy Barry’s #1 (G)/Christy Barry’s #2 (G)
If There Were No Women in the World (G)/Joe Bane’s (A)
Morning Mist (D)/Bohola Jig (D)/The Doonagore (G)/Free and Easy (D)
The Humours of Lisheen (G)/The Leg of the Duck (D)
Farewell to Nigg (Bm)/Return From Fingal (Em)/Dever the Dancer (Em)
The Frieze Britches (D)/Langstrom’s Pony (Amix)/Padghin O’Rafferty (D)

Manus recorded his set for you to learn ahead of time…thank you Manus!

Here’s John Redmond’s setlist for his February 11th session with Matt Stapleton:

Saddle the Pony (G)/My Darling Asleep(D)/Merrily Kiss the Quaker (G)
Woman of the House (G)/Maud Miller (Em)/Silver Spear(D)
Mountain Road (D)/Tommy Peoples (G)/Wind That Shakes The Barley (D)
Snowy Path (D)/Cock and The Hen (F#m)/Gan Ainm (B)
Mayor Harrison's Fedora (Em)/Paddy Taylor's (Dmix)/James Byrne's (G)

John has kindly recorded the last of these sets at a slow speed, so you can learn/practice ahead of time. The video is to the right. Thank you, John!

Here’s a tune that Avocado will play on the Christmas Eve session along with James Yoshizawa!

Lyrics for Virtual Session #48: Bonus Session: “Will You Go Lassie, Go”

Will ye go lassie, go?
And we'll all go together
To pluck wild mountain thyme
All around the blooming heather
Will ye go lassie, go?

I will build my love a bower
Near yon pure crystal fountain
And on it I will pile
All the flowers of the mountain

Will ye go lassie, go?
And we'll all go together
To pluck wild mountain thyme
All around the blooming heather
Will ye go lassie, go?

If my true love she were gone
I would surely find another
Where wild mountain thyme
Grows around the blooming heather

Will ye go lassie, go?
And we'll all go together
To pluck wild mountain thyme
All around the blooming heather
Will ye go lassie, go?

Oh, the summertime is coming
And the trees are sweetly blooming
And the wild mountain thyme
Grows around the blooming heather

Will ye go lassie, go?
And we'll all go together
To pluck wild mountain thyme
All around the blooming heather
Will ye go lassie, go?

Lyrics for CTARS #5, October 22nd

Cailín Deas Crúite Na mBó

It being on a fine summer’s morning
As the birds sweetly tuned on each bower
I heard a fair maid sing most charming
As she sat milking her cow
Her voice was enchanting melodious
Which left me scarce able to go
My heart, it was soothed and solaced
By the cailín deas crúite na mbó

I courteously did salute her
“Good morning, most amiable maid
I’m your captive slave for the future”
“Kind sir, do not banter,” she said
“I’m not such a precious rare jewel
That I should enamour you so
I am but a plain county girl”
Says the cailín deas crúite na mbó

“The Indies afford no such jewels
So precious, so transparent clear
Oh do not refuse me, my jewel
Consent now and love me, my dear
For riches I care not a farthing
It’s your love that I'd want and no more
I’d rather live poor on the mountain
With my cailín deas crúite na mbó”

“I don’t understand what you mean, sir
I ne’er was a slave yet to love
For these feelings I have no desire
I pray your affection remove
To marry, I can assure you
Tis a state I would not undergo
I’m prepared to live single and airy”
Says the cailín deas crúite na mbó

Nancy Spain

Of all the stars that ever shone
not one does twinkle like your pale blue eyes
like golden corn at harvest time
your hair sailing in my boat,
the wind gently blows and fills my sail
You sweet scented breath is everywhere

CHORUS
No matter where I wander I'm still haunted by your name
the portrait of you beauty stays the same
standing by your ocean wond'ring where you've gone if you'll return again
where is the ring I gave to Nancy Spain

Daylight peeping through the curtains of the passing nighttime
is your smile the sun in the sky is like your laugh
Come back to me Nancy and linger for just a little while
since you left these shores I know no peace or joy

CHORUS

On the day in spring when snow starts to melt
and streams to flow with the birds I'll sing to you a song
in a while I'll wander down by Bluebell Grove
where wild flowers grow and I'll hope my lovely Nancy will return

CHORUS

Here’s the first ever Mary O’s Virtual Session Crossword! Click on it to open the file, print it out, and submit your answers to tunes@tune.supply during the October 1st virtual session for your chance to receive an Alaskan prize: MOOSETARD. First fully completed and correct submission wins!

Here are the letters drawn during the Alderson’s Boggle game. Use these letters to find your own Boggle words in order to win a Chicago prize: A Yanks CD, signed by Isaac himself! Award yourself points as follows: 3- or 4-letter words get ONE POINT, 5-letter words get TWO POINTS, 6-letter words get THREE POINTS, etc. Put your total score in the chat during the virtual session on October 1st. Highest score wins, but the winner must submit your answers to tunes@tune.supply for verification by Isaac, in order to win the prize!

Peter Rahill’s composition:
“Whiskey In The Basement”

Thanks for sharing it with us, Peter!