Annotation:Little House Around the Corner (1)
X:1 T:Little House Round the Corner [1] M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig N:Attributed to "J. Hand" B:Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:D .F.D(A, D).F.B | AFD {F}.E.DB,-|A,.D.F .A.d.f|{a}.g>fg .e(ag)| {g}fed AFD|{F}.E.D(B, D).F.A|{e}dcd eag|(fd).d d2:| |:(f/g/)|.a(fa) .g(eg)|fed ecA|{e}dcd ede|fdf (efg)| .a(fa) .g(eg)|{g}fed ecA|{e}d>cd AFD|{F}EDE D2:|
LITTLE HOUSE (A)ROUND THE CORNER [1]. AKA - "Little House Round the Corner." AKA and see "House in the Glen (2) (The)," "Little Thatched Cabin (The)," "McDermott's Fancy." Irish, Scottish, Canadian; Jig (6/8 time). Canada, Cape Breton. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Cole, Kerr, McNulty, Ryan): AA'BB' (O'Malley). A jig of uncertain provenance, with roots in Scottish, Irish and American tradition. The tune is one of several attributed to one "J. Hand" in Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883). New York musician, researcher and writer Don Meade believes that Johnny and James Hand were fiddling brothers (or father-and-son) in the Boston, Massachusetts, area in the mid-19th century. However, it was printed in Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 2 around the same time it appeared in Ryan's collection (although the Kerr's collections are undated, and the exact dates of publication are yet to be established). The jig has currency among modern Cape Breton fiddlers.
As Paul de Grae has pointed out[1], O'Neill gave "Little House Round the Corner" as one of the alternate titles for the jig "Absent Minded Man (The)", which itself is "an almost exact reproduction of Levey's 'The House in the Corner'"[2]. These jigs have nothing musically in common with "Little House around the Corner [1]," but the title connection (through "Absent Minded Man") with Levey's very similar tune name perhaps made for an error by O'Neill.
