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'''OLD GREY GOOSE [1], THE''' (An Sean Gead Liat). AKA and see "[[We'll All Take a Coach and Trip it Away]]." Irish, Double Jig. E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDEEFF (Taylor): AABBCCDDEEFF (Miller & Perron, O'Neill/1915, 1001 & 1850): AABB'CC'DDEE (O'Neill/Krassen): AABB'CC'DD'EEFF' (Alewine): AABBCCDDEEFFGG (Moylan). The multi-part jig that appears in the great Chicago compiler, Captain Francis O'Neill's '''Music of Ireland''' (1903) is a composite melody, made up of two separate tunes grafted together. O'Neill himself identified "an old time jig named "[[We'll all take a coach and trip it away]]", a five-part tune printed in [uilleann piper] O'Farrell's '''National Irish Music''', 1797-1800" as the precursor tune to his "The Old Grey Goose." Precursors also appear under the titles "[[Breeches Loose]]" (a two-part tune in an 18th-century English violin tutor) and later, in Scotland, as "[[Britches Maker (The)]]." O'Neill's story is that the version he printed came about in a rather circuitous fashion, beginning in the 1880's when a renowned Irish piper by the name of John Hicks (a protege of the 'Sporting' Captain Kelly from the Curragh of Kildare) played a venue in Chicago. On that occasion several of his tunes were memorized by local musicians and subsequently entered Irish-American tradition in that city. Hicks' tune is the 1st and 3rd parts of "Old Grey Goose." O'Neill himself heard the 1st and 2nd parts as a jig played by County Leitrim fiddler James Kennedy who called it "The Geese in the Bogs" and when he dictated the melody to his collaborator, fiddler James O'Neill, he discovered James had a manuscript version with six parts. Somewhat arbitrarily, they decided to use the last three parts of J. O'Neill's manuscript version, with the three obtained from Hicks and Kennedy, and, since they already had a tune by the name of "Geese in the Bogs" they decided to call the piece "Old Grey Goose."

'''OLD GREY GOOSE [1], THE''' (An Sean Gead Liat). AKA and see "[[We'll All Take a Coach and Trip it Away]]." Irish, Double Jig. E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDEEFF (Taylor): AABBCCDDEEFF (Miller & Perron, O'Neill/1915, 1001 & 1850): AABB'CC'DDEE (O'Neill/Krassen): AABB'CC'DD'EEFF' (Alewine): AABBCCDDEEFFGG (Moylan). The multi-part jig that appears in the great Chicago compiler, Captain Francis O'Neill's '''Music of Ireland''' (1903) is a composite melody, made up of two separate tunes grafted together. O'Neill himself identified "an old time jig named "[[We'll all take a coach and trip it away]]", a five-part tune printed in [uilleann piper] O'Farrell's '''National Irish Music''', 1797-1800" as the precursor tune to his "The Old Grey Goose." Precursors also appear under the titles "[[Breeches Loose]]" (a two-part tune in an 18th-century English violin tutor) and later, in Scotland, as "[[Britches Maker (The)]]/[[Breeches Maker (The)]]." O'Neill's story is that the version he printed came about in a rather circuitous fashion, beginning in the 1880's when a renowned Irish piper by the name of John Hicks (a protege of the 'Sporting' Captain Kelly from the Curragh of Kildare) played a venue in Chicago. On that occasion several of his tunes were memorized by local musicians and subsequently entered Irish-American tradition in that city. Hicks' tune is the 1st and 3rd parts of "Old Grey Goose." O'Neill himself heard the 1st and 2nd parts as a jig played by County Leitrim fiddler James Kennedy who called it "The Geese in the Bogs" and when he dictated the melody to his collaborator, fiddler James O'Neill, he discovered James had a manuscript version with six parts. Somewhat arbitrarily, they decided to use the last three parts of J. O'Neill's manuscript version, with the three obtained from Hicks and Kennedy, and, since they already had a tune by the name of "Geese in the Bogs" they decided to call the piece "Old Grey Goose."

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-'''OLD GREY GOOSE [1], THE''' (An Sean Gead Liat). AKA and see "[[We'll All Take a Coach and Trip it Away]]." Irish, Double Jig. E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDEEFF (Taylor): AABBCCDDEEFF (Miller & Perron, O'Neill/1915, 1001 & 1850): AABB'CC'DDEE (O'Neill/Krassen): AABB'CC'DD'EEFF' (Alewine): AABBCCDDEEFFGG (Moylan). The multi-part jig that appears in the great Chicago compiler, Captain Francis O'Neill's '''Music of Ireland''' (1903) is a composite melody, made up of two separate tunes grafted together. O'Neill himself identified "an old time jig named "[[We'll all take a coach and trip it away]]", a five-part tune printed in [uilleann piper] O'Farrell's '''National Irish Music''', 1797-1800" as the precursor tune to his "The Old Grey Goose." Precursors also appear under the titles "[[Breeches Loose]]" (a two-part tune in an 18th-century English violin tutor) and later, in Scotland, as "[[Britches Maker (The)]]." O'Neill's story is that the version he printed came about in a rather circuitous fashion, beginning in the 1880's when a renowned Irish piper by the name of John Hicks (a protege of the 'Sporting' Captain Kelly from the Curragh of Kildare) played a venue in Chicago. On that occasion several of his tunes were memorized by local musicians and subsequently entered Irish-American tradition in that city. Hicks' tune is the 1st and 3rd parts of "Old Grey Goose." O'Neill himself heard the 1st and 2nd parts as a jig played by County Leitrim fiddler James Kennedy who called it "The Geese in the Bogs" and when he dictated the melody to his collaborator, fiddler James O'Neill, he discovered James had a manuscript version with six parts. Somewhat arbitrarily, they decided to use the last three parts of J. O'Neill's manuscript version, with the three obtained from Hicks and Kennedy, and, since they already had a tune by the name of "Geese in the Bogs" they decided to call the piece "Old Grey Goose."
+'''OLD GREY GOOSE [1], THE''' (An Sean Gead Liat). AKA and see "[[We'll All Take a Coach and Trip it Away]]." Irish, Double Jig. E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDEEFF (Taylor): AABBCCDDEEFF (Miller & Perron, O'Neill/1915, 1001 & 1850): AABB'CC'DDEE (O'Neill/Krassen): AABB'CC'DD'EEFF' (Alewine): AABBCCDDEEFFGG (Moylan). The multi-part jig that appears in the great Chicago compiler, Captain Francis O'Neill's '''Music of Ireland''' (1903) is a composite melody, made up of two separate tunes grafted together. O'Neill himself identified "an old time jig named "[[We'll all take a coach and trip it away]]", a five-part tune printed in [uilleann piper] O'Farrell's '''National Irish Music''', 1797-1800" as the precursor tune to his "The Old Grey Goose." Precursors also appear under the titles "[[Breeches Loose]]" (a two-part tune in an 18th-century English violin tutor) and later, in Scotland, as "[[Britches Maker (The)]]/[[Breeches Maker (The)]]." O'Neill's story is that the version he printed came about in a rather circuitous fashion, beginning in the 1880's when a renowned Irish piper by the name of John Hicks (a protege of the 'Sporting' Captain Kelly from the Curragh of Kildare) played a venue in Chicago. On that occasion several of his tunes were memorized by local musicians and subsequently entered Irish-American tradition in that city. Hicks' tune is the 1st and 3rd parts of "Old Grey Goose." O'Neill himself heard the 1st and 2nd parts as a jig played by County Leitrim fiddler James Kennedy who called it "The Geese in the Bogs" and when he dictated the melody to his collaborator, fiddler James O'Neill, he discovered James had a manuscript version with six parts. Somewhat arbitrarily, they decided to use the last three parts of J. O'Neill's manuscript version, with the three obtained from Hicks and Kennedy, and, since they already had a tune by the name of "Geese in the Bogs" they decided to call the piece "Old Grey Goose."
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