Annotation:Riding a Mile (1)

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RIDING A MILE (1). AKA - "Ride a Mile." AKA and see AKA and see "Cummilum," "Fairest Put on Awhile," "Hey My Kitten," "I Don't Care," "Is Cuma Liom," "Mad Moll (1),” "Virgin Queen," "Yellow Stockings." English, Irish; Slip Jig (9/8 time). G Major (most versions): A Major (Doyle, Haverty, O'Neill): D Major (O'Farrell). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (most versions): AA'BB (Haverty): AA'BB' (O’Neill/Krassen): AABBCCDD (O’Farrell). The second strain has some similarity to the first strain of “Up and Down Again,” and thus appears related to the “Mad Moll (1)” family of tunes stemming from Playford’s Dancing Master of 1698. However, the two parts are printed reversed in some printings of the slip jig (e.g. O'Farrell).

Source for notated version: the c. 1845-47 music manuscript collection of Ellis Knowles, a musician from Radcliffe, Lancashire, England [Doyle].

Printed sources: Doyle (Plain Brown Tune Book), 1997; p. 21. P.M. Haverty (One Hundred Irish Airs vol. 2), 1858; No. 128, p. 59. Hughes (Gems from the Emerald Isles), London, 1867; No. 83, p. 19. O’Farrell (Pocket Companion, vol. II), c. 1806; p. 115 (appears as “Ride a Mile”). O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 85 (appears as "Riding a Mule").

Recorded sources:

See also listings at:

  • Jane Keefer’s Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
  • Alan Ng’s Irishtune.info [2]



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