Annotation:Tinker's Frolic (The)
X:1 T:Tinker's Frolic, The M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:James Goodman music manuscript collection, Book 1, p. 41 (mid-19th century) F:http://goodman.itma.ie/volume-one#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=44&z=-1049.9919%2C812.8866%2C11661.6638%2C4466.6667 F:at Trinity College Dublin / Irish Traditional Music Archive goodman.itma.ie Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Emin BEEE B2 AF|BEEE B2 AF|BEEE BcdB|AFDF A2 FA| BEEE BAFA|BEEE A2 FA|BEEE BAFA|BcdB A2 GF|| E2 EF D2 DF|E2 EF B2 AF|E2 EF D2 DF|AFDF A2 GF| E2 EF D2 DF|E2 EF B2 AF|E2 EF D2 DF|AFDF A2 FA||
TINKER’S FROLIC, THE. AKA and see "Jolly Tinker (2) (The)." Irish, Reel (whole time). E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The melody appears at least three times in the mid-19th century music manuscript collection of Church of Ireland Canon James Goodman (1828-1896). Goodman, an Irish speaker and uilleann piper, collected in tradition in County Cork and elsewhere in Munster, but also obtained tunes from manuscripts and printed sources. One of his versions (entered as "Tinker's Frolic", albeit only the first three bars) in Volume 5 of his large music manuscript collection was "copied...from a little book published by an anonymous author, in 1825"[1]. Researchers Conor Ward and Fr. John Quinn find the melody cognate with another Goodman tune, "Jolly Tinker's (4) (The)," and also with Rev. Luke Donnellan's "Jackson's Watering Tooth" and Tommy Gunn's "Round the World (2)."
