Annotation:Drunken Gauger (4)
X:1 T:Drunken Guager [4], The T:Drunken Ganger's, The (parts reversed) M:9/8 L:1/8 R:Slip Jig S:Rev. James Goodman music manuscript collection (vol. 2, p. 157) N:Canon Goodman was a uilleann piper and cleric who collected primarily N:in County Cork in the mid-19th century F:http://goodman.itma.ie/volume-two#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=160&z=-3954.8063%2C112.2513%2C15406.4921%2C5360 F:at Trinity College Dublin / Irish Traditional Music Archive goodman.itma.ie Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G c|BGG AGE EDD|BGG AGE c2A|BGG AGE EDE|GAB AGE E2:| |:GBd ege dBG|GBd ege d2B|GBd ege dBG|AGE GAB c2c:|]
DRUNKEN GAUGER [4], THE. AKA and see "Drunken Ganger's (The)," "Ganger (2) (The)," "Steampacket (2) (The)." Irish, Slip Jig (9/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune is contained in vol. 2 (p. 157)[1] of the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper wikipedia:James_Goodman_(musicologist). According to Goodman researchers Hugh and Lisa Shields, Goodman obtained the tune from a manuscripts provided to him by Dublin bookseller John O'Daly[2]. Elias Howe's "Drunken Ganger's (The)" is a version of the tune, with the parts reversed. See also the related "Noggin of Cream (The)"/"Swaggering Jig (1) (The)" family of slip jigs, particularly related in the first strain.
