Annotation:Mug of Brown Ale (2) (The)

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MUG OF BROWN ALE [2]. AKA and see "John Naughton's Jig," "Jug of Brown Ale," "Old Man Dillon," "One Bottle More (2)," "Stonecutter's Jig (The)." Irish, Jig. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB' (Kennedy): AA'BB' (Harker). The tune is sometimes credited to County Antrim piper Robert Thompson (as, for example, his granddaughter, Margaret Barry, asserts). The Levey collection would appear to be the earliest printing of the tune (hence the claim to original title) which appears in O'Neill as "Old Man Dillon" and in Ryan/Cole as "One Bottle More (2)." R.M. Levey notes that the fiddlers he heard resolved the last chord to A Major at the end of the tune. Compare also to the Scotch jig "O As I Was Kiss'd Yestreen (1)," published by James Oswald in his Caledonian Pocket Companion.

Source for notated version: New Jersey flute player Mike Rafferty, born in Ballinakill, Co. Galway, in 1926 [Harker].

Printed sources: Harker (300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty), 2005; No. 247, p. 76. Levey (First Collection of ), 1858. Kennedy (Jigs & Quicksteps, Trips & Humours), 1997; No. 126, p. 31.

Recorded sources: Clannad - "Dúlamán" (1976. Appears as "The Jug of Brown Ale). Smithsonian Folkways (06819, cassette), Michael Gorman & Willie Clancy - "Irish Jigs, Reels and Hornpipes" (originally released in 1956).

See also listings at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index []
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources []
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info []