Annotation:King's Jig (2)

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KING'S JIG [2], THE. AKA and see "Best in the Bag (The)," "Circle (The)" (Burchenal), "Green Fields of Miltown," "Happy Mistake (The)," "Jackson's Mistake," "John Blessing's Delight," "King of Jigs," "King of the Jigs," "King (The)," "Miss Monroe’s Jig/Mrs. Monroe’s (1)," "Mrs. Spens Monroe," "Munster Jig (1) (The)," "Sam Hyde's Quickstep." Irish, Double Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD. Breathnach (1996) believes the tune was originally a Scottish jig. "Jackson's Mistake"/"Jackson's Bottle of Claret" is cognate, but not identical, with the first two parts of "King's Jig (2)", and was published (as "Jackson's Mistake") in Edinburgh in 1809 by Irish uilleann piper John Murphy, who had secured a position as piper to the Earl of Eglinton in Ayrshire ("Jackson's Bottle of Claret" had been published in Dublin in th e1790's). Philippe Varlet points out this four part jig is a combination of "Miss Monroe's" and one part of "Going to Donnybrook" from Francis O'Neill's 1903 collection, plus another part. The tune appears in two parts in O'Farrell's Pocket Companion and in uilleann piper James Goodman's manuscripts (II, p. 35) under the title "Happy Mistake (The)."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Breathnach (CRÉ IV), 1996; No. 8, p. 6. Bulmer & Sharpely (Music from Ireland), 1976, vol. 4, No. 64. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 4; No. 210, p. 24. O'Brien (Jerry O'Brien's Accordion Instructor), 1949.

Recorded sources:

See also listing at:
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [2]
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [3]
Hear the tune played by the Siamsa Gaedheal Céilí Band at the Comhaltas Archive [4]