A Tailor I Am jig

This is a very basic version of the tune learned from the fiddle playing of Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdagg87Qxn0

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As he comments in the clip, he doesn’t have a name for this jig but learned from the playing of Paddy Cronin, hence the title. If you happen to know a more imaginative title of this tune, please inform me.

Thanks for beating me to the punch on this one, slainte. The tune shows up on Paudie O‘Connor & John O’Brien’s CD, “Wind & Reeds”. They also credit the tune to Paddy Cronin (one of my all-time FAVORITE fiddlers, by the way) under the title “A Tailor I Am”. So there you go. When I get a second, I’ll post their more detailed setting of the tune as an ABC in this comments section. It’s quite lovely!

Thanks Jay for the correct title of this tune. Hope you can find time to transcribe O‘Connor & O’Brien version of it.

Martin Wynne once told me that the “correct” name for “Tell Her I Am” was “A Tailor I Am.” I’m not sure if that was something he recalled from his own local tradition or if he had come across the “Tailor” title in some old collection. The two tunes don’t seem to be related otherwise. .

…“Na Fir Bolg” by Jack Talty and Cormac Begley, where they state it comes from the playing of Paddy Cronin, after whom they name it.

There’s a ‘A Tailor I Am’ on page 134 of “Tunes of the Munster Pipers” but t‘ain’t this ’un.

David

The setting from Jack Talty and Cormac Begley on ‘Na Fir Bolg’ is slightly different:

X: 1
T: A Tailor I Am
R: jig
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
|:d|~B3 dBA|GBA G2B|dcB c2d|ecA Adc|
BAB dBA|GBA G2B|dcB Adc|BGG G2:|
|:d|dBd g2a|bga g2e|dcB c2d|ecA A2 3(e/f/g) |
afd g2a|bga g2e|dcB Adc|BGG G2:|

This great jig (from probably my favorite track of the Teada recording, “Ceol & Cuimhne”)
was posted by Lon Dubh on the page for “Paddy Cronin’s Reel”.
He posted it as a jig, but I guess it somehow got “corrected” to have 4/4 reel time signature on that page.
Because people should be able to find this tune by seaching for “Paddy Cronin’s Jig”, I decided to start a new page for it.

jig Páddy Ó Cróinín

Variation heard in Austin, TX. Especially like the alternating walk-down in the 2nd measure of the B section.

See https://thesession.org/tunes/10361 A Tailor I Am

Another (I wish to politely say - objectively more accurate) transcription of track 3 on Jack Talty & Cormac Begley’s Na Fir Bolg album.

Alternative title comes from track 9 in this link to the World Fiddle Day 2022 Scartaglin sets
https://soundcloud.com/pj-teahan-884614828/sets/world-fiddle-day-scartaglin