Annotation:Galloping Hogan
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GALLOPING HOGAN. Irish, Double Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Galloping Hogan" was printed in Walton's Dance Music, Part Three, a collection that includes original tunes by singer, songwriter, arranger and composer Joseph M. Crofts, to whom this jig is attributed. Crofts, who was born in 1886, had a music shop on North Frederick Street, Dublin, in the first half of the 20th century. The music publishing house of Waltons published some of Crofts works, although many attributed to him seem to be arrangements of traditional material, rather than his own compositions. It is difficult to tell what may be his truly original compositions. Roche's "Galloping O'Hogan" is a similarly titled but musically unrelated jig.
Galloping Hogan was the sobriquet of one Dónall Ó hÓgáin (Daniel Hogan), a scout with Patrick Sarsfield's Jacobite forces in the daring attack on the Williamite siege train at Ballyneety near Dundrum, County Tipperary, on August 11th, 1690. Hogan, a blacksmith's son, became one of Ireland's greatest rapparees.
One song, also entitled "Galloping Hogan", begins:
Old Limerick is in danger and Ireland is not free;
So Sarsfield sends a message to a fearless rapparee:
"Come ride across the Shannon at the sounding of the drum
And we'll blow the enemy siege train to the land of Kingdom come."
Galloping Hogan, Galloping Hogan, Galloping Hogan all along,
In his saddle is a saber, on his lips there is a song;
He's off across the Shannon to destroy the enemy cannon;
And he goes galloping, he goes galloping,
Galloping, galloping on.
