Annotation:Will You Come Down to Limerick? (1)

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X:1 T:Will You Come Down to Limerick? [1] M:9/8 L:1/8 R:Slip Jig S:O’Neill – Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907), No. 415 Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G d|cAG GDG G2d|cAG GFG Add|cAG GDG G2A| |1 FGA =fed cAd:|2 FGA =fed cAG||def gaf g2f| def gbg afd|cde =fge f2d|cde =fed cA^F| def gaf g2f|def gbg afd|bag agf g2d| cde =fed cAG||BGB AFA G2A|BAB GbdcBA| BGB AFA G2A|FGA =fed cAG|BGB AFA G2A| BAB GBd cBA|fdf ece d2A|FGA =fed cAG||

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WILL YOU COME DOWN TO LIMERICK? [1] (A tiocfad tu sios go Luimnaig?). AKA and see “Follow Me Down to Limerick,” "Munster Gimlet," “Plumkum.” Irish, Slip Jig (9/8 time). G Major/Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Mitchell): AA'BC (O’Neill): AA’BCDEE’F (Mitchell). Francis O'Neill remarks in Irish Folk Music: A Fascinating Hobby:

An uncommonly fine tune of this class [i.e. slip jig], in three strains, obtained from John Ennis, is “Will You Come Down to Limerick?” Simpler versions are known to old-time musicians of Munster and Connacht, and in Chicago. Ennis had no monopoly of it, for it was well known to Delaney, Early, and McFadden. As an old-time Slip Jig it seems to have been called “The Munster Gimlet,” a singularly inapt title; but when it came into vogue by its song name, we are unable to say.

Member of the Irish Music Club, Chicago, c. 1903. John Ennis is in the middle row, 4th from the left.

See also the related “Whack at the Whigs (A).” "Gold Ring (1) (The)" is a double-jig time variant.

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