Annotation:Irish Lawyer (The)
X:1 T:Irish Lawyer, The M:6/8 L:1/8 N:Drone 'A' string whenever possible. B:Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (London, 1757) Z:Transcribed and edited by Fynn Titford-Mock, 2007 Z:abc's:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:D f/e/|d2A AFA|AFA Afe|d2A AGF|EFE Efe| d2A AF(A|A)FA AGF|GAB AGF|1 EFE E2:||2 EFE GFE| |:D<EF F>EF|DEF GFE|D>EF F>EF|EFE GFE| D>EF F>EF|FEF FEF|GAB AGF|1 EFE GFE:||2 EFE E2:||
IRISH LAWYER. AKA and see "Miss Ketty Hall," "Savoyard's Frolic (The)." English, Jig (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. The melody, like many in Charles and Samuel Thompson's 1757 collection, first appeared in John Johnson's 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 7 (London, 1756). The first strain is similar to that of the air "White Horse (1) (The) in P.W. Joyce's Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (1909), who obtained the melody from scupltor Patrick MacDowell. The Thompsons brushed off the tune and republished it thirty years later as "Savoyard's Frolic (The)."
