“An Phis Phliuch” - “Whinny Hills Of Leitrim”[ there are 2 tunes with the same name ] - “Hardiman The Fiddler” - “Humours Of Whiskey” - “Will You Come Down To Limerick ?” - “Maire Rua” - “Dever The Dancer” - all fairly common.
One I must learn is “A Trip To Killarney”, which has about 5 or 6 parts.
If you want 2 Scottish 9/8 jigs, try “The Favourite Dram” or “Donald,Willie & His Dog”.
Na Ceannabhain Bhana
An Phis Fliuch
Will you come down from Limerick
Humours od DerrykIssane
Moll Rua
Foxhunters
Hardiman the fiddler
Top it off
Swaggering jig
Humours of Whiskey (Dever the Dancer)
Ride a mile
Boys of ballysodare
Gusty’s frolics
Drops of Brandy
My mind will never be easy
Whinny Hills of Leitrim
Drops of Spring Water
The First Slip
Give us a drink of water
etc etc
So here I am just yesterday beginning to master ‘Butterfly’ and you folks have to start putting out these long lists. Sigh! So many tunes, so little time and talent. Its hard to keep thinking young with all these weighty matters to deal with.
It’s not?? Ok, I looked it up and it’s not - it’s written in 6/8 Perhaps it’s just the way I learned it, but it has such a minorish, slipjigish feel, that I had mentally classified it that way.
From Margaret’s telling of the story (“Alan Lomax Collection: I Sang Through the Fairs”), and it’s not that clear the way she tells it, she heard the first two parts in a dream, and remembered it upon waking. From there she or Michael added the rest of the parts; it’s hard to tell if she composed the parts by lilting them out for Michael to figure out on the fiddle, and/or if Michael added the 5th and 6th parts. It appears he, at least, rearranged the various parts into the order we know it. She says she has a 7th part in her head…