Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 1343 (Morrison's Jig)

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Double jig32E Dorian
Transcription of first 2 bars of Morrison's Jig
 about these two bars

These two bars are the start of my transcription of how this tune was played – the first time through – on the recording BB 2 (details in the Discography below).

Where do you get the tune titles?
Titles given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Morrison's Jig / Port Uí Mhuirgheasa / Maurice Carmody's Favorite / Maurice Carmody's Favourite / The Stick across the Hob / Stick across the Hob / Paddy Stack's Fancy Jig / Paddy Stack's Fancy / Lyon's Favourite / The Rookery (3rd in set Old Hag You Have Killed Me on BB 2; mislabeled as Whelan's in a set on CmA 1 which alternates between this tune and Whelan's) (compare Whelan's #1699)
What do the "track#tune" codes mean?

cd Discography

Here are all recordings of this tune considering only the indexed recordings. I have discovered by careful listening that these sources are in fact musically the same tune, regardless of the tune titles they use, key changes, retuning, etc. They are listed in order of when they were recorded.

Year
Recorded		 Track
#Tune		 [Album code] Artist. Title. Primary musicians (instruments). Album details
and contents
19768#3[BB 2] The Bothy Band. Old Hag You Have Killed Me. Paddy Keenan (pipes, whistle), Matt Molloy (flute, whistle), Kevin Burke (fiddle), Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill (vocals, clavinet, harmonium), Mícheál Ó Domhnaill (vocals, guitar), Donal Lunny (vocals, bouzouki, guitar, bodhrán).View album details
~19786#2[ItS] various. In the Smoke. View album details
~19789#2[LC 1] Liz Carroll. A Friend Indeed. Liz Carroll (fiddle).View album details
~198010#2[JKn 1] James Keane. Roll Away the Reel World. James Keane (accordion).View album details
~19913#1[BT] Baal Tinne. . . . About Time. Noel Rice (flute, whistle), Kevin Rice (bodhrán, percussion), Cathleen Rice (fiddle), Matt Sundstrom (guitar), Paul Cienniwa (piano, keyboards).View album details
~199632#2[CmA 1] various. The Coleman Archive Vol. 1: The Living Tradition. View album details
20022#1[LAC] Tom and Kerry Barrett. Lios A'Cheoil. Traditional Irish Music. Tom Barrett (fiddle), Kerry Barrett (fiddle).View album details

Bibliography

Here are all transcriptions of this tune under any title whatsoever – considering only the indexed books – listed in chronological order. I have discovered by careful comparison that these are very similar to this tune as played on the recordings listed above.

As tune #50 in [CRE 1] Breandán Breathnach. Ceol Rince na hÉireann 1.
As jig #102 in [MM] Martin Mulvihill. First Collection of Traditional Irish Music.
As tune #92 in [DM 1] Dave Mallinson. 100 Essential Irish Session Tunes. [available]
On page 99 of [M] Phil Rubenzer. Midwestern Irish Session Tunes. 3rd Edition.
On page 164 of [M2] Phil Rubenzer. Midwestern Irish Session Tunes. Millennium Edition.
As jig #80 in [Cobb] Dan Cobb. Cobb's Music of Ireland. [available]
As tune #195 in [Raff] Lesl Harker. 300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty. [available]
In [LM] L[arry]. E. McCullough. ? [available]

If you are considering using the above transcriptions to help you learn this tune, I invite you to check these practical Tips for Learning Irish Traditional Music. See also: So why do you bother indexing books and abc?

Year of the oldest source for this tune, considering the recordings and transcriptions listed above (note that I concentrate on sources after 1900): 1963
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