Annotation:Down the Hill
X:1 T:Down the Hill M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig S:O'Neill - Dance Musicof Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907), No. 995 Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:Gmin G/F/|DGG G2A|B/A/G/A/B/G/ A/G/F/G/A/F/|G/F/D/C/D/E/ F2G| A{c}BG FDC|DGG G2B|A/G/F/G/A/B/ cAc|d/e/fd cAd|G3 G2:| |:B/c/|dgg g2a|b/a/g/a/b/g/ afd|cff f2g|a/g/f/g/a/f/ gfd| dgg g2a|b/a/g/a/b/g/ a/g/f/g/a/f/|gfd cAd|G3 G2:| |:=B/d/|gd=B G>Bd/B/|G>=Bd/B/ c_BA|fcG F>Ac/A/|F/G/AB cBA| B/A/G/A/B/G/ c/B/A/B/c/A/|dg^f gab|gfd cAd|G3 G2:||
DOWN THE HILL (Sios an Cnoc). AKA - "Down the Hills." AKA and see "Cover the Buckle," "Down with the Tithes (1)," "Humors of Milltown (1)." Irish, Air (6/8 time). G Minor (O'Neill): G Dorain (Stanford/Petrie). Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC (Stanford/Petrie): AABBCC (O'Neill). Perhaps short for "Chasing the Hare Down the Hill." The tune was also entered in County Cork cleric and uilleann piper James Goodman's large mid-19th century music manuscript collection (volume 1, p. 21).
Compare the tune with "Blooming Meadows (1)," cognate in the first strain (the subsequent strains differ).
