- Style
- Celtic
- Tradition
- Irish, from the Scottish 'Miss Lyall'
- Form
- Reel
- Key
- A minor
- Level
- 3
- Played on
- Fiddle and Mandolin
In the public domain. Source
Music
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Chord chart
History
The reel grew out of the Scottish strathspey and reel "Miss Lyall," credited to Captain Simon Fraser of Knockie and later printed by the Gows as "Mrs. Grant of Laggan's Strathspey." Sligo fiddler Michael Coleman made the first recording in New York in 1921, and Donegal fiddler John Doherty called it "Mooney's Reel."
Fiddler Ted Furey told a story to go with the title. Paddy Ryan, a widow's son from the Midlands, dreamed three nights running that he would find his fortune on O'Connell Bridge in Dublin. He paced the bridge until he met a neighbor, who said he had dreamed of gold buried under a gooseberry bush in Paddy's own garden. Paddy went home, dug, and found three crocks of gold.