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|f_annotation='''MUNSTER GIMLET.''' AKA and see "[[Kitty Come Down to Limerick]]," "[[Plumkum]]," "[[Whack at the Whigs (A)]]," "[[Will You Come Down to Limerick? (1)]]." Irish, Slip Jig. G Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. The famed early 20th century Irish-American piper Patsy Touhey (1865-1923), called the tune by this title and recorded it on a cylinder in the first decade of the 20th century. | |||
'''MUNSTER GIMLET.''' AKA and see "[[Kitty Come Down to Limerick]]," "[[Plumkum]]," "[[Will You Come Down to Limerick (1)]]" | |||
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''Kitty come down, come down,''<br> | ''Kitty come down, come down,''<br> | ||
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''That she wanted a touch of the gimlet!''<br> | ''That she wanted a touch of the gimlet!''<br> | ||
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A gimlet is a tool for boring holes in wood; thus a bawdy connotation. | |||
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< | Francis O'Neill, in '''Irish Folk Music, a Fascinating Hobby''' (1910), records: | ||
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'' | ''An uncommonly fine tune of this class'' [i.e. slip or hop jigs]'', 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 as'' | |||
' | ''a song name, we are unable to say.'' | ||
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<br> | See also the related "[[Leitrim Jig (1) (The)]]." |f_source_for_notated_version= | ||
<br> | |f_printed_sources=Kerr ('''Merry Melodies, vol. 2'''), c. 1880's; No. 289, p. 32. Levey ('''First Collection of the Dance Music of Ireland'''), 1858; No. 27, p. 11. | ||
---- | |f_recorded_sources=Homestead Records, Patsy Touhey - "The Piping of Patsy Touhey." | ||
|f_see_also_listing=Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [http://www.irishtune.info/tune/1053/]<br> | |||
Hear Patsy Touhey's cylinder recording at the Comhaltas Archive [http://comhaltasarchive.ie/search?tab=tracks&q=munster+gimlet#/tracks/7950]<br> | |||
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Latest revision as of 03:07, 19 April 2020
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MUNSTER GIMLET. AKA and see "Kitty Come Down to Limerick," "Plumkum," "Whack at the Whigs (A)," "Will You Come Down to Limerick? (1)." Irish, Slip Jig. G Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. The famed early 20th century Irish-American piper Patsy Touhey (1865-1923), called the tune by this title and recorded it on a cylinder in the first decade of the 20th century.
Kitty come down, come down,
Kitty come down to Limerick.
I knew by the glint in her eye
That she wanted a touch of the gimlet!
A gimlet is a tool for boring holes in wood; thus a bawdy connotation.
Francis O'Neill, in Irish Folk Music, a Fascinating Hobby (1910), records:
An uncommonly fine tune of this class [i.e. slip or hop jigs], 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 as a song name, we are unable to say.
See also the related "Leitrim Jig (1) (The)."
