My latest obsession is Dennis Ryan’s…
I can’t find much info on this tune. Does anyone know if it’s traditional or modern? From where did it come & is it attributed to any composer, group, or region? I’m mad about it for some reason & curious as to why it seems so obscure. Here’s a youtube version - but watch out you’ll be hooked!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-qYK0Z6Ucs
Thanks,
Deisman
There’s this:
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/CO_COLL.htm#COCK_AND_THE_HEN
Could be both. 
But it’s in Ryan’s Mammoth Collection (1883). I first learned it as a Donegal setting “Doodly Doodly Dank” from fiddler Larry Sanger, in B minor (I think).
MTGuru beat me to it. I was about to post that Andrew Kuntz’s Fiddler’s Companion should be your first call for any similar question. He doesn’t get nearly enough credit for his sterling work, IMO.
I learned the F# minor version. Short but sweet tune.
Question for those who play this in a set of slippery jigs. I’ve recently learned The Whinney Hills of Leitrim, and I’ve been following that with the F# minor version of Dennis Ryan’s. Only fitting tune I could think of to follow is Hardiman the Fiddler. Any thoughts for a finisher?
Cheers,
(By the way Dale, if you’re reading… The new set-up is awesome, I like it anyway)
Good info - thanks folks! Doodly, Doodly, Dank we go…
Deisman
Great tune. I love this forum as I am slowly learning the names of the tunes I know!!! I learned this tune from the box playing of Charlie Heymann and never got a name of it off him.
Great tune. I learned it a few years ago in Galway in F# minor, in the middle of a set between Slieve Russell (double jig) and Minor Slip (http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/988).
Lately, I tend to leave off Slieve Russell and I’ve started to tack on The Night Before Larry Was Stretched (http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4712) only starting on a D (B-minor?). Makes for a nice progression, imho.