Annotation:Cucanandy
X:1 T:Cucanandy R:slip jig D:Cran: The Crooked Stair Z:id:hn-slipjig-44 Z:transcribed by henrik.norbeck@mailbox.swipnet.se M:9/8 K:Edor ~B3 B2A G2A|B2d d2c d3|~B3 B2A G2A| B2e e2d e3:||:e2f g2f g3|B2d d2c d3| |1 e2f g2f g3|B2e e2d e3:|2 e2B B2A G2A|B2e e2d e3||
CUCANANDY. AKA - "Cuaichin Aindi." AKA and see "Denis Murphy's Slide (4)," "Whistling Thief (2) (The)." Irish, Air and Slip Jig. E Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. The alternate title "The Whistling Thief" comes from a song by Samuel Lover. The title "Cucanandy" derives from a lilt meant for baby-dandling, sung by Elizabeth Cronin of Ballyvourney, County Cork, on a 1951 Seamus Ennis recording: "Cuc, cucanandy, cucanandy, O." Mrs. Cronin was bedridden at the time of the recording, explains piper Neil Mulligan, and sang into a microphone set beside her on her pillow.
