This summer at Boxwood, Kevin Crawford taught us this jig. I didn’t catch its name. Can anyone name this G major tune?
GBGAGE/ EDEGbG/AGE c3/ B2G AGE/EDEGED/DEG G3/
GBGAGE/EDEGbG/AGEcde/d2b AGE/EDEGED/DEG G3//
G3~ Gbc/dbGEAA/Abcede/G3~Gbc/dbAGbD/DEGG3
G3~ Gbc/dbGEAA/Abcede/gaggfe/dbAGbD/DEGG3//
I hope I did the ABC notation correctly.
Thanks for any info, Jeanie
It’s a slip jig actually, not a jig. You have the notes right, but the bars need to be marked off in 9/8 time rather than 6/8. Lunasa plays this one on their latest CD Se where they call it Timmy Collins’s Slip Jig. Timmy Collins, a concertina player from Clare (I think), plays the tune on his CD Dancing on Silver, and there he calls it Breathnach’s.
So there, you have two names for it now - probably neither one of them the right one. Welcome to Irish music! It’s a nice little tune actually. I’ve been playing it myself lately, on the concertina.
then…
X:112
T:Breathnach’s.
R:Slip Jig
M:9/8
L:1/8
K:G
|:GBG AGE EDE|GBG AGE c3|B2G AGE EDE|GED DEG G3|
GBG AGE EDE|GBG AGE cde|d2B AGE EDE|GED DEG G3:|
|:~G3 GBc dBG|EAA ABc ede|~G3 GBc dBA|GBD DEG G3|
~G3 GBc dBG|EAA ABc ede|gag gfe dBA|GBD DEG G3:||
Nice! Thanks for the tune.
Thanks much for the replies! I wondered why I kept having trouble with the bar lines when I was writing it out from my tapes. Much easier just to play it than to write it out!
thanks for identifying this slip jig! Merry Christmas!
Jeanie