X:1
T:Tap the Barrel (Jig)
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Jig
B:James Goodman music manuscript collection, vol. 1 (mid-19th cent., p. 211)
F:at Trinity College Dublin / Irish Traditional Music Archive goodman.itma.ie
K:G
c|BAG AFD|DFD AFD|BAG AFD|DGG G2c|
BAG AFD|DFD AFA|BGB cAF|GAG G2:|
|:g|f2d g2e|f2d cAG|g2g g/a/bg|afd d2e|
|1 f2d g2e|f2d cAG|BAG cAF|GAG G2e:|
|2 fed gba/g/|fed cAG|BAG cAF|GAG G2||
TAP THE BARREL. Irish, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. "Tap the Barrel" is a jig contained in volume 1 of the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper James Goodman. Goodman researchers Hugh and Lisa Shields find the first strain of Goodman's "Tap the Barrel" is cognate with the second strain of O'Neill's "Road to Lurgan (The)" (Music of Ireland, 1903, No. 830).
Additional notes
Printed sources : - Hugh Shields (Tunes of the Munster Pipers vol. 1), 1998; No. 211.
