Annotation:Paddy's Resource (1)
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PADDY'S RESOURCE [1] (Tionsgnad Paidin). AKA and see “Belle of the Kitchen (1),” "Ill Omens," “New York Jig (3) (The),” “Rover (2) (The).” Irish, English; March (6/8 time) or Jig. E Flat Major (Winstock): F Major (Aird): D Major (Aird): G Major (O'Neill, Sumner): A Major (McGlashan). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Winstock): AABB (Aird, McGlashan, O'Neill, Sumner). Winstock (1970) says it was written by band sergeant James O'Connor (Galway, Ireland) as a march for his British army regiment, the 77th, in the Crimean War (1855), at the suggestion, it is said, of his commanding officer. Perhaps it was that O’Connor adapted it, for the tune (as “Paddie’s Resource”) appeared some seventy years earlier in a collection of Scots Measures by Alexander 'King' McGlashan, James Aird’s Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 2 (1785), and Niel Stewart's A Select Collection of Scots English Irish and Foreign Airs Jiggs & Marches (Edinburgh, 1788). See also the closely related “Rover (2) (The)” and “Road to Skye (The).”
The tune appears in a few musicians' manuscript copybooks of the 18th and 19th centuries: H.S.J. Jackson (Wyresdale, Lancashire, 1823), Thomas Sands (Lincolnshire, 1810), Daniel Henry Huntington (Onondaga, N.Y., 1817, as "Paddy's Recourse"), and Thomas Molyneaux (Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 1788). Frank Kidson finds the title twisted into "Paddy's racehorse" in one old publication.
“Kitty of Coleraine” AKA “Coleraine (2)” is a similar and perhaps cognate tune.
Source for notated version: the 1823-26 music ms. of papermaker and musician Joshua Gibbons (1778-1871, of Tealby, near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire Wolds) [Sumner].
Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. II), 1785; Nos. 66 & 67, p. 25 (two settings, one in F, one in D). P.M. Haverty (One Hundred Irish Airs vol. 2), 1858; No. 172, p. 78. McGlashan (Collection of Scots Measures), c. 1780; p. 21. O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 50. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 997, p. 186. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 212, p. 49. Neil Stewart (Select Collection of Scots, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, Jiggs & Marches, vol. 1), 1784; p. 10. Sumner (Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript), 1997; p. 70 (originally set in the key of ‘C’ major). Winstock (Music of the Redcoats), 1970; p. 159.
Recorded sources:
See also listing at:
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [2]