Annotation:Connolly's Jig

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X:1 T:Connolly's Jig M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig S:Joyce - Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (1909) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:Edor B,2E EFA|BAF d3|B,2E EFA|BAG FED|B,2E EFA| BAF d2B|ABc dcd|BAG FED::B2e efg|fef d2A| B2e efg|fef dBA|B2e efg|fdB dag|fed B/c/dB| Afd AFD::EFE e2d|BAF d2F|EFE e2d|BAG FED| EFE e2d|e/g/fe dfa|gfe dcd|BAG FED:||

CONNOLLY'S JIG. Irish, Jig (6/8 time). E Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. Researcher Lisa Shields finds the tune cognate with James Goodman's "Touch it up Tight," and both members of the "Huish the Cat" family of tunes.

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Copied from one of "two very old well-written manuscripts lent to me in 1873 by Mr. J. O'Sullivan, of Bruff, Co. Limerick" (Joyce).

Printed sources : - Connolly & Martin (Forget Me Not), 2002; pp. 20-21. Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 240, pp. 116-117.

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