Annotation:Flaming O'Flanigan's

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X:1 T:Flaming O'Flanigan's M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig S:Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:C (c/d/) | efe ded | cdc ceg | abc' gfe | edd dgf | e3 dcd | cdc ceg | abc' gfe | fdB c2 :|| (g/f/) | efg g2g | g>ag abc' | gfe edc | Bcd d2g | efg g2g | g>ag abc' | g>fee dc | Bcd dgf ||

FLAMING O'FLANIGAN'S JIG. AKA and see "Irish Jig (4)," "Nothing Can Sadden Us." Irish, Jig (6/8 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABA. New York City researcher, writer and musician Don Meade finds the title to be taken from a 19th century song, with a chorus that goes:

Hooroo! Whack!
For that was the way with the Flaming O'Flannagans,
From the first illigant boys of that name;
For kissing and courting, and filling the can again,
Drinking and fighting like cocks of the game.
Hooroo! Whack!

Fr. John Walsh finds the melody to be a version of an untitled jig printed by Glasgow publisher James Aird ("Irish Jig (4)") and as the vehicle for the song "Nothing Can Sadden Us." It seems possible, though perhaps a stretch, to think the the inspiration for the "Flaming O'Flannagan" title may have been a miss-hearing of the title "Nothing can sadden us".

Additional notes

Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 67. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 98.

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