Mist Covered Mountains
Also known as
Ceo ṠléiḃeChi Mi Na MorbheannaThe DollymountJunior Crehan'sThe Mist Covered MountainsThe Mist On The MountainThe Mist-covered MountainThe Misty Covered MountainThe Misty Mountain
Key
A Dorian
Type
Jig
Level
BIA
Instrument
Tin Whistle
About this tune
A rare modern jig with a named author: West Clare fiddler Junior Crehan (1908–1998) made it from the Scottish Gaelic song "Chì Mi na Mòrbheanna" ("The Mist Covered Mountains of Home"), turning the slow air into a jig in A Dorian. Caoimhín Mac Aoidh reads the mist-covered mountain of the title as Slieve Callan in Clare. Charlie Piggott picked the jig up from the Doolin whistle-and-flute player Micho Russell, and De Dannan recorded it on the album that took its name.
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