Munster Buttermilk jig

Note: This is not the same tune as the “Munster Buttermilk” given on the database as an alternative name for “Behind the Haystack”.

Sorry about the typo in the title of the previous posting! Why do they put “b” and “n” next to each other on the keyboard? 🙂

Two years later someone comes along with an alternative title. I hope it’s picked up by someone. I have this as Sports of Multfarnan and play it in the key of ‘D’

Randy Miller & Jack Perron, 1983 / 2nd edition 2003

Page 47: “Munster Buttermilk”

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~ also their publication:
“Irish Traditional Fiddle Music”

If you want a tune for the dance “The Bridge of Athlone”, you will need a three-part jig, like the other tune called “Munster Buttermilk”. Alternatively, you have to play it AABBAB, which is a pain, speaking as an old barn-dance musician.

Since the only recordings I know of it are Denis Murphy, then Mick o‘Brien and Caoimhin o’Raghallaigh. Must be a Sliabh Luachra thing?

--DtM

# Posted on June 27th 2007 by mhuppert
https://thesession.org/discussions/14259

X: 2
T: Christmas Day in the Morning
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: D Major
|: A |
dcd edB | A2 F FEF | A2 F FEF | AFE DFA |
dcd edB | A2 F FEF | AFE DEF | EFE D2 :|
|: B |
A2 B d2 e | ~f3 fed | ~e3 edB | ~d3 edB |
A2 B d2 e | ~f3 fed | edB ABd | efe d2 :|

# Posted (as 12/8) on June 27th 2007 by cheshire puddy tat

~ the Denis Murphy jig off “Star Above the Garter”

|: d2 f edB | BAF FEF | ADD DFA | BAF DFA |
d2 f edB | BAF FEF | ADD DEF | EDD D3 :|
|: BAF AAd | efa ffe | fge edB | ddd edB |
AFA d2 e | faf fed | edB Adf | edd d3 :|

# Posted on June 27th 2007 by Dan the Man

It’s been recorded in D in Newfoundland a couple of times recently, under the name “Frank Stamp’s”. As near as I can tell, they play just one phrase differently from what is listed above as “Christmas Day in the Morning”. I think it also cropped up once recently in D in our local session, which is very far from Newfoundland, alas.

# Posted on June 27th 2007 by Sol Foster

There are multiple tunes with the name “Munster Buttermilk.” Don’t confuse this two-part jig with the “Munster Buttermilk” also known as “Behind the Haystack,” a tune in D with three parts.

“Behind the Haystack” / “Munster Buttermilk”
https://thesession.org/tunes/358

# Posted on June 27th 2007 by AlBrown

When I first learnt this jig we played in in the key of G. and we called it Munster Buttermilk. I also knew it as Christmas Day in Morning, which makes me think maybe the tune had words to it to do with Christmas.

As played by ^slainte’:
T: Christmas Day In The Morning
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmix
A|d2f edB | AFF FEF | AFF FEF |AFE D2 A|
d2f edB | AFF FEF | AFE DEF | E3 D2 :|
A|A2 B d2e| ~f3 fed | ~f3 fed | efe edB|
A2 B d2e| ~f3 fed |e2 e f2 e|d3 d2:|

Also on Packie Byrne and Bonnie Shaldjean’s “The Half Door”, on Dingles, where they play it in D. It’s nice in D

This is the third jig in a set on an audio clip over at http://comhaltas.ie/music/detail/mug_of_brown_ale/.

12/8

Some variations from Aly Bain’s & Phil Cunningham’s album “Portrait”.

Is this a normal double jig? It has a different feel.

I remember how to start this slide by the title “Christmas Day in the Morning,” which yes, is part of the lyrics of a traditional English carol “I Saw Three Ships A-Sailing,” to which the A-part (only) is similar.

I saw three ships come sailing in
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day
I saw three ships come sailing in
On Christmas Day in the morning

And what was in those ships all three
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day?
And what was in those ships all three
On Christmas Day in the morning?

Our Savior Christ and His lady
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day
Our Savior Christ and His lady
On Christmas Day in the morning

Pray, wither sailed those ships all three
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day
Pray, wither sailed those ships all three
On Christmas Day in the morning

O, they sailed into Bethlehem
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day
O, they sailed into Bethlehem
On Christmas Day in the morning

And all the bells on Earth shall ring
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day
And all the bells on Earth shall ring
On Christmas Day in the morning!