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OSCAR WOODS' JIG. AKA - "Oscar's Jig." AKA and see "Jig (53)," "Mother Goose," "Grandmother's Pet," "Jig (53)." English, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Oscar Woods' Jig" has a provenance that is yet to be ascertained. An early printing of the tune can be found in Boston music publisher G. Graupner's Collection of Country Dances and Cotillions (c. 1808) as "Mother Goose", and it was entered as an untitled jig in County Leitrim fiddler and piper Stephen Grier's large c. 1883 music manuscript collection (Grier No. 122, for which see "Jig (53)"). Peter Kennedy collected the jig under the title "Grandmother's Pet."

Oscar Woods was a melodeon player from Benhall Green, near Saxmundham, Suffolk, who was first inspired to pick up the instrument as a farmboy when he heard an old farm worker, 'Tiger' Smith, play. When Woods was older he and Tiger became playing partners in local pubs, where he also learned from other melodeon players, in particular the Seamen family of Darsham. Nick Barber cautions against playing the jig too quickly, and said that Woods played it with heavy off-beat accents in some bars.

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - from Oscar Woods, recorded by Tony Engle in 1973, via John Kirkpatrick's recording from English Choice [Callaghan].

Printed sources : - Barber (Nick Barber's English Choice), 2002; No. 30, p. 17. Callaghan (Hardcore English), 2007; p. 62.

Recorded sources : - DMPCD0203, Nick & Mary Barber with Huw Jones - "Bonnie Kate." John Kirkpatrick - "Orlando's Return" (2003). Nick Barber - "Bonny Kate" (2002). Topic Records TSDL229, Oscar Woods - "English Country Music from East Anglia" (1973. Various artists).

See also listing at :
Hear/see melodeon player Lester Bailey play the tune [1]

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