Annotation:Murphy's Weather Eye

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MURPHY'S WEATHER EYE. AKA and see "Inverness Jig (3)." Irish, Jig. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A distanced version of the jig is known to Cape Breton fiddlers under the "Murphy's Weather Eye" title, but also as "An Inverness Jig" (referring to the town and county of Inverness, Cape Breton). Paul Cranford notes: "During the 1950's and '60's this traditional jig was popular among Inverness County players such as Dan J. Campbell and Angus Allan Gillis" [Cape Breton's Magazine, Issue 65, 1994, p. 24).

Source for notated version: copied from Clinton's Irish Melodies (1840) [O'Neill].

Printed sources: O'Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 163.

Recorded sources:

See also listing at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [1]
Hear Tommy Wilmot's recording of "An Inverness Jig" at Cranford Publications [2]

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