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'''BILL HARTE'S JIG [1]''' (Port Liam Uí Airt). AKA and see "[[Did You See My Man Looking for Me? (2)]]," "[[Rookery (2) (The)]]," "[[Sonny Brogan's ( | |f_annotation='''BILL HARTE'S JIG [1]''' (Port Liam Uí Airt). AKA and see "[[Did You See My Man Looking for Me? (2)]]," "[[Rookery (2) (The)]]," "[[Sonny Brogan's (2)]]," AKA - "Tom Hearte's." Irish, Double Jig. D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Breathnach): AABB (Harker/Rafferty, Mallinson). Breathnach (1976) notes the tune was not original with source Harte, and that it was related to "[[Bímid ag ól (1)]]," "[[Jackson's Humours of Panteen]]" and "[[Huish the Cat]]." In fact, the melody was used as an air, and Breathnach notes that Sligo musician John Brennan used to sing "Did you see my man looking for me?" to it. The mother of Tom Barrett, from Knockbrack, Lyreacrompane, near Tralee, would sing to it this soothing song for a child: | ||
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''Bú dí bú sin, neataí nóinín,'' <br> | ''Bú dí bú sin, neataí nóinín,'' <br> | ||
''Bú dí bú sin, was every bit of her;''<br> | ''Bú dí bú sin, was every bit of her;''<br> | ||
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''See how she dances, every bit of her;''<br> | ''See how she dances, every bit of her;''<br> | ||
''See how she goes on the tip of her toes,''<br> | ''See how she goes on the tip of her toes,''<br> | ||
''Bú dí bú sin, was every bit of her.'' ... (Breathnach, | ''Bú dí bú sin, was every bit of her.'' ... (Breathnach, CRÉ II, 1976) | ||
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Harte was a Dublin accordion player and a member of the Dublin Garda, or police force, and a member of the Lough Gill Quartet with Sonny Brogan, John Hawley and Sarah Gill. | |||
Harte was a Dublin accordion player and a member of the Dublin Garda, or police force, and a member of the | |f_source_for_notated_version=accordion player Bill Harte, 1968 (Dublin, Ireland) [Breathnach]; session at the Regent Hotel, Leeds, England [Bulmer & Sharpley]; New Jersey flute player Mike Rafferty, born in Ballinakill, Co. Galway, in 1926 [Harker]. | ||
|f_printed_sources=Breathnach ('''Ceol Rince na hÉireann, vol. II'''), 1976; No. 39, p. 22. Breathnach ('''The Man and His Music'''), 1996; No. 2, p. 88. Bulmer & Sharpley ('''Music from Ireland vol. 1'''), 1974; No. 55. Harker ('''300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty'''), 2005; No. 208, p. 64. Mallinson ('''100 Enduring'''), 1995; No. 39, p. 17. | |||
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|f_see_also_listing=Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/s14.htm#Sonbrji]<br> | |||
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Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/s14.htm#Sonbrji]<br> | |||
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [http://www.irishtune.info/tune/1794/]<br> | Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [http://www.irishtune.info/tune/1794/]<br> | ||
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Latest revision as of 15:40, 3 November 2022
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BILL HARTE'S JIG [1] (Port Liam Uí Airt). AKA and see "Did You See My Man Looking for Me? (2)," "Rookery (2) (The)," "Sonny Brogan's (2)," AKA - "Tom Hearte's." Irish, Double Jig. D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Breathnach): AABB (Harker/Rafferty, Mallinson). Breathnach (1976) notes the tune was not original with source Harte, and that it was related to "Bímid ag ól (1)," "Jackson's Humours of Panteen" and "Huish the Cat." In fact, the melody was used as an air, and Breathnach notes that Sligo musician John Brennan used to sing "Did you see my man looking for me?" to it. The mother of Tom Barrett, from Knockbrack, Lyreacrompane, near Tralee, would sing to it this soothing song for a child:
Bú dí bú sin, neataí nóinín,
Bú dí bú sin, was every bit of her;
See how she goes on the tip of her toes,
Bú dí bú sin, was every bit of her,
See how she dances, see how she prances,
See how she dances, every bit of her;
See how she goes on the tip of her toes,
Bú dí bú sin, was every bit of her. ... (Breathnach, CRÉ II, 1976)
Harte was a Dublin accordion player and a member of the Dublin Garda, or police force, and a member of the Lough Gill Quartet with Sonny Brogan, John Hawley and Sarah Gill.
