Annotation:Jackson's Coggie

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 JACKSON'S COGGIE/COGE (IN THE MORNING). AKA - "Jackson's Lodge in the Morning." AKA and see "Bantry Bay Jig," "Humors of Ballinafauna (The)," "My Former Wife." Irish, Single Jig. A Minor (O'Farrell, O'Neill): E Minor (Miller): G Minor (Kennedy). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune bears the name of the 18th century gentleman piper Walker 'Piper' Jackson, of the townland of Lisdaun, parish of Ballingarry, Aughrim, County Limerick. It appears in O'Farrell's Pocket Companion for the Irish or Union Pipes (vol. I, 14) published c. 1805. Coggie is the name for a small barrel or drinking vessel. See also the related single jig "Humors of Ballinafauna." Levey (1858) gives the tune as "Humors of Mullin-a-fauna (2)." Breathnach (1996) finds the names "Morning Dew (The)" and "Jackson's Maria" for the melody from county Westmeath and Cavan, respectively.  Source for notated version: copied from O'Farrell's Pocket Companion [O'Neill].  Printed sources: Kennedy (Traditional Dance Music of Britain and Ireland: Jigs & Quicksteps, Trips & Humours), 1997; No. 83, p. 21 (appears as "Jackson's Lodge in the Morning"). Miller (Fiddler's Throne), 2004; No. 62, p. 47 (appears as "Jackson's Lodge in the Morning"). O'Farrell (Pocket Companion), c. 1805; p. 14. O'Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 153.  Recorded sources:  See also listing at: Alan Ng's Irishtune.info

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