Annotation:Jackson's Over the Water (1)

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 JACKSON'S OVER THE WATER [1]. AKA and see "Jackson's Lake." Irish, Jig. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A composition of the famous 18th century gentleman musician Walker 'Piper' Jackson, of the townland of Lisduan, in the parish of Ballingarry, Limerick. The tune was first published by Samuel Lee in Dublin c. 1774 in Jackson's Celebrated Irish Tunes, a volume reprinted in 1790. Goodman gives the title as "Jackson's Lake." Glasgow publisher James Aird printed the jig in his sixth and last volume of Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, as "Jackson's Over the Water, 1780", by which title it appears in the music manuscript collection of fiddler John Fife (who was probably from Perthshire, but who may also have compiled his ms. at sea, as there is mention of sea battles in the Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas).  Source for notated version: copied from James Aird's Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs (1782-97) [O'Neill].  Printed sources: O'Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 175.  Recorded sources:

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