Happy To Meet, Sorry To Part jig

This version is from a New England fiddle music collection.

Both Seamus Ennis and his father played this song as an ending to their performances. It is on his recording: “The Wandering Minstrel,” which I submitted and should be listed. Great jig.

Ennis has an “and” in the name of his.

This pops up on an old Horslips album too, possibly by the same name.

The slip jig version of the tune is called “My Mind Will Never Be Easy”: https://thesession.org/tunes/191 It’s normally played in G while posted in Amin.

it’s exactly like Eddie Kelly’s, no?

Eddie Kelly’s? Well, no, not “exactly,” though it shares many of the same phrases. Two distinct tunes, made out of the same cloth.

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A lovely jig associated with John Joe Gardiner: https://thesession.org/tunes/5349 Angelina Carberry points out the similarity between the two tunes.

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The second setting is what I remind of the Horslips album “Happy to meet, Sorry to part”

I transcribed this version from a commercial recording made by Frank Quinn (1893-1964) of Greagh, Drumlish, Co. Longford in December, 1921. He played it on the accordion and entitled it “The Cherry Blossom - Jig”.

This is the setting from the Patsy Hanly’s playing (cf above, celticmarine’s post). Though his setting is largely different from the initial version posted here, I have decided to include it here.
Does it deserve its own entry (as I think) ?

The structure of this setting is AAB type.

I have not been able to include some variations (especially concerning bar 1 and 9) because using the %%multicol directives seems not to be supported by this version of the site (or I have not found how to properly use them here)… And I find boring adding extensively all the bars just for those 2 variations.
Here is what works using EasyABC (with the latest release of abcm2ps, see Guido Gonzato for getting it)
“[1”B2B BAB | GDG G2A | Bde dBG | B3 AGA |
B2B BAB | GDG G2A | Bde dBA | AGF GBd|
“[2”gdB BAB | GDG G2A | Bde dBG | B3 AGA |
B2B BAB | GDG G2A | Bde dBA | AGF GBd||
g2g age | dBd dBd | gbg aga | bge e2f |
gaf gfe | ded def | g2d edB | ABd efg :|]
%%multicol start
“[1 (from 2nd time)“edG B2A |
%%multicol new
%%leftmargin 7cm
“[2 var” g2B BAB |
%%multicol end

The B section here is quite similar to Mrs. Galvin’s: https://thesession.org/tunes/10733

Learned this version from the playing of Leo Brown, accordion, prominent musician in North Antrim. It seems to work very well on the button accordion and I prefer it to any of the settings posted previously.

Happy To Meet, Sorry To Part on mandolin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRQDK8zYBy0

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A version of Happy To Meet, Sorry To Part from The Joyful Hour by Open The Door For Three. It follows Let’s Leave That As It Is on the opening track of the album. The B part is quite different to other settings. The pipes and fiddle finish each part with BGG G3 but I quite like having the F# in there: BGF G3, so it’s not quite a faithful capture of the tune the way it’s played on this album.