Annotation:Siegfried Mulcahy
X:1 T:Siegfried Mulcahy M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig B:Harding’s Original Collection (1897, No. 183, p. 58) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Bmin B/c/|dcd BAF|FBB BBc|dcd Bed|cAA Afg| a^ga fed|cBA cde|fBB B^AB|FBB B2:| |:B/c/|dFF dFF|FBB cde|dcd Bed|cAA Afg| a^ga fed|cBA cde|fBB B^AB|FBB B2:|]
SIEGFRIED MULCAHY. American, Jig (6/8 time). B Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune is labelled an "Irish Jig" in Frank Harding's 1897 collection, but this is to differentiate it from the form 'straight jig' (in 2/4 time), and not to denote Irish provenance. The title seems uniquely American, a melding of the two most prominent immigration groups of the 19th century, Germans and the Irish. "Devlin's" is a similar jig in the first several measures but then differs, and the two are not cognate.
