Annotation:Fraher's Jig
X:1 T:Fraher's Jig M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig K:G A3 GEA | DED GEG | ABA GEA | ~D3 DFG | A3 GEA | DED GEG | (3ABc A GEA | ~D3 D3 | A3 GEA | DED GEG | ABA GEA | ~D3 DFG | A3 GEA | DED GEG | (3ABc A GEA | ~D3 D3 || (3ABcA d2A | d2A AGE | GAB c2c | BGE EDD | Add def | dcA AGE | (3ABc A GEA | D2~D D3 | (3ABcA d2A | d2A AGE | GAB c2c | BGE EDD | Add def | dcA AGE | (3ABc A GEA | D2~D D3 ||
FRAHER'S JIG. Irish, Single Jig (12/8 or 6/8 time). D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Mitchell): AA'BB' (Taylor). This single jig is sometimes paired with double jigs, with which it fits (not every single jig does). It can be traced to Edward Fraher (b. 1804), an Emly, Tipperary, piper whose hey-day was the first half of the 19th century. Fraher's neighbor and pupil, James Bourke of Kilfrush, Knocklong, County Limerick, learned the tune and in turn passed it along before he died in the 1920's. Brother Gildas (1883-1960, AKA Patrick O'Shea, a piper and De La Salle brother) learned the tune from Bourke, and Co. Clare piper Willie Clancy (who popularized it in modern times) had the melody from Gildas.
