Annotation:Tommy Rooney's Jig
X:1 T:Tommy Rooney's Jig S:Erskine Morris via Devon Leger N:Tommy Rooney was a fiddler and excellent stepdancer from the N:Douglastown area of the eastern Gaspé. M:6/4 L:1/8 N:ADae tuning (fiddle) D:Erskine Morris - "Music and Song from the Gaspé Coast" (2014) D:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o55Vrjs6M9I D:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3389OY2lGVw&t=0s Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:D efg|:Sa2fd egfe defg|a2fd- de- ee defg|a2 fd egfe d2 AG| [M:C|]FDDF EDCE |1FDDD Defg[M:6/4]:|2 [M:C|]FDDD DDFD|| [M:6/4]GEEB EBGB A2FD|EE-EE- EECE DEFD|GEEB EBGB ADFD| EE-EE- EECE DEFD|GEEB EBGB ADFD|EE-EE- EECE DEFD| GEEB EBGB ADFD|[M:C|]EE-EE GECE| FDDD DefgS||
TOMMY ROONEY'S JIG. Canadian, Reel (6/4 time). Canada, eastern Gaspé peninsula. D Major. ADae tuning (fiddle). AA'B. Glenn Patterson, whose researches of the music of Anglophone Douglastown and surrounding communities highlighted this tune initially had information that it was composed by a Ms. Napoleon Rooney of Douglastown for a relative, perhaps a son or nephew. However, it talking further with informants from the area he could not verify the story and considers the composition can be attributed only to older Douglastown fiddlers. According to Brigid Drody, daughter of Douglastown fiddler Joe Drody (Sr.), "the old-time fiddlers would play this tune so fast for step-dancers that they used to say it would take a spider with forty legs to keep up with Tommy Rooney's Jig!"[1]
