Annotation:Old Joe's Jig

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OLD JOE'S JIG. AKA and see "Gullane Jig (The)," "John Joe's Jig (1)," "Old Bush Jig," "Port Sheáin tSeosaimh." Irish, Jig. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Mallinson, Tubridy): AABB'. It is perhaps a piping tune.

Source for notated version: Charlie Lavin (b. 1940, Cloohshanville, near Frenchpark, County Roscommon) [Flaherty].

Printed sources: Flaherty (Trip to Sligo), 1990; p. 153 (appears as "Unknown"). Mallinson (100 Enduring), 1995; No. 35, p. 15. Tubridy (Irish Traditional Music, vol. 1), 1999; p. 29.

Recorded sources: Shanachie 79002, "The Boys of the Lough" (1973. Learned from Matt Molloy and Liam og O'Flynn).




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