Annotation:Sporting Pitchfork
X:1 T:Sporting Pitchfork R:Jig M:6/8 L:1/8 K:G ~F3 EDE|F2D ~D3|~G3 ~A3|cAG FGA| ~B3 BAG|~A3 AB^c|d^cB AGF| GAG ~G3:|| ~d3 ~f3|gfe ~d3|~g3 bag|fed ~d3| ~B3 BAG|~A3 AB^c|d^cB AGF|GAG ~G3:||
SPORTING PITCHFORK, THE. Irish, Double Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was famously paired with “The Rambling Pitchfork” on the 1978 Paddy Glackin/Paddy Keenan album (Doublin’), the medley being known as ‘The Pitchforks’. ‘Pitchfork’ in the title refers to an itinerant farm laborer, called after his tool of trade in the same way that a gunman on a payroll in the American west was referred to as a ‘hired gun’.
