There’s another version here https://thesession.org/tunes/882

Here’s a version in G https://thesession.org/tunes/882

Let’s try that again: https://thesession.org/tunes/235

Name this tune

I heard this on an album once, I just don’t remember who playted it; I think it was Bothy Band.

Duplicate….

https://thesession.org/tunes/882

If the Bothy Band recorded it, it’s almost certainly here already.

Oh..

Jeez, don’t know how I missed that. There are some big differences but they’re clearly the same tune. I guess I’ll save both of them side by side in another file.

Pretty much Sean Bui in G isn’t it?

thanks for the link to this better version.

“O’er / Over the Water to Charlie”

Appears in two setting as “Yellow John” in O’Neill’s 1850 (numbers 1832 & 1833).
Both settings added here (copied from John Chambers’ transcriptions).
A “Seán bui” (yellow John) can be a disparaging term for a “pompous Englishman” (John Bull type) or even, so I’m told, England.
Whether the title of this tune refers to this, I don’t know.

The song “Over the water to Charlie”, sung to a variant of this tune is well known. One of the best versions I’ve heard was sung by Tom McConville and Dab Hand. Tom playing fiddle and singing simultaneously.

It’s over the water, it’s over the sea
It’s over the water tae Charlie
Come weal, come woe, we’ll gather and go
To live or die wi’ Charlie

Sean Bui, X:9

Piping version

Sean Bui jig

Interesting to see the title “Sean Bui” for this well known tune. It can be found in a Scottish manuscript from the early 1700s (from the Inglis Collection - see http://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/pageturner.cfm?id=94569172) as “Ian Buis” - an obvious link. Elsewhere it’s in Gow’s 3rd Collection (1792) as “O’er the Water to Charlie” and “Wishaw’s Delight”.

Re: Sean Bui

There’s a nice 6-part version in James Oswald’s Caledonian Pocket Companion (Book 11, I think) under the name “Shanbuie”.

Sean Bui, X:11

As played by Nollaig Mac Cárthaigh on the NPU beginners piper tutor.

Sean Bui, X:12 another piping version

Piping version learned many many years ago from the french piper Marc Guilloux during workshops of the Paris’ piper’s club “Na Piobairi France” of that time.

The Kerry, X:13

Setting I heard from Tommy Reck’s field beautiful Album “The Stone in the Field”, under the name of “Sean Bui”. It seems to be a more common setting amongst pipers, or atleast very similar to this one.

IIRC he borrowed Pat Sky’s Rowsome flat set in that particular recording.

Re: The Kerry

Whoops! I thought this was the correct place for the “official” Sean Bui! Oh well

Sean Bui, X:14

Tommy Reck’s version from the field album ’The Stone in the Field", of which was played on Pat Sky’s own Rowsome Flat set which Pat lent to Tommy whilst recording.

Re: The Kerry

For comparison.. This is “Over the Water to Charlie” from the “Winders of Wyresdale..”

Over the Water to Charlie

Tony Dixon Pro High D Whistle

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