Annotation:Spatter the Dew (3)
X:1 T:Spatter the Dew [3] M:9/8 L:1/8 B:Fitzmaurice’s New Collection of Irish Tunes, section 1 (Edinburgh, 1807, p. 1) B:https://books.google.com/books?id=vq4Fb5TyTK4C&pg=PP10&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:D FGF FEF d3|FGF FEF AFE|FGF FEF d3|cBA BAF AFE:| |:A2c e2c {e}d2B|A2c e2c fdB|A2c e2c {e}d2B|cBA dAF AFE:| |:FDF FdF Fdf|FDF FdF AFE|FDF FdF Fdd|cBA dcB AFE:| |:ecA AcA def|ecA AcA cBA|1 ecA AcA def|ecA BAF AFE:| |2 ece agf edc|BAF (B/c/d)F AFE||:DFA DFA def| DFA DFA AFE|DFA DFA d2f|edc dAF AFE:|]
SPATTER THE DEW [3]. Irish, Slip Jig (9/8 time). F Sharp Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABCCDD. The tune is variously thought of in the key of F Sharp Minor or the relative major key of A (or A mixolydian, although the identifying 'g' note is absent). The F sharp tonality is established in the beginning of the tune, but resolves to the major. A version of the slip jig appears in the mid-19th century music manuscript collection of uilleann piper and Church of Ireland cleric James Goodman. Fr. John Quinn identifies Henry Hudson's "Leather You Rogue (The)" as a cognate melody.
