Annotation:Jenny Rock the Cradle
X:1 T:Jenny Rock the Cradle M:C L:1/8 R:Reel N:Goodman obtained the tune from the music manuscripts of 19th century N:Dublin bookseller John O'Daly. S:Rev. James Goodman music manuscript collection (vol. 2, p. 152) N:Canon Goodman was a uilleann piper and cleric who collected primarily N:in County Cork from a variety of sources in the mid-19th century. F:http://goodman.itma.ie/volume-two#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=155&z=1047.8431%2C1302.5165%2C7429.8284%2C2584.8765 F:at Trinity College Dublin / Irish Traditional Music Archive goodman.itma.ie Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G GABe dBBe|dBBe d2 BA|GABe dBBg|gage d2 cA:| |:gage fddf|gage f2 ed|gaba gfed|efge d2 BA:|]
JENNY ROCK THE CRADLE. AKA and see "Charles Leslie." Irish, Reel (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The reel is contained under the "Jenny Rock the Cradle" title in vol. 2 (p. 152) of the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper biography:James Goodman. A version of it was printed in Glasgow publisher James S. Kerr's Merry Melodies as "Charles Leslie," and Goodman manuscripts researchers Hugh and Lisa Shields find a cognate to the first strain in Goodman's own "Jack Lattin" (vol. 4, p. 96).
"Jennie Rock the Cradle" is a different tune, but also has ties to "Jackie Layton."