The Glens Of Mayo jig

In case anyone’s wondering, this is actually a double jig, but it doesn’t have that option.

On this site, in line with common usage, “jig” means “double jig”

Where did you get in from?

http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/GLA_GLU.htm#GLENS_OF_MAYO

I found it in a little fiddle book of mine. I forgot the name and used tunepal to figure out what it was, instead of going through the book. So then I used the ABCs that I found, so that I could put it up here. (I’m horrible with abc notation, I can’t do it)

Ah, it’s not that hard, An Fidleir - look up a jig that you know well, something easy like Saddle The Pony, print out the ABC for it and see how it fits the tune you know. Basics are that anything from a C below low D on a standard D whistle is written in CAPITALS up to B i.e. …C D E F G A B then switch to lower case c d e f g a b - that’s up to high B on a D whistle. In a jig 123 123, each note is written as is - when you want to hold a note longer, it’s written e.g. G2 or G3 - so the opening bars of Saddle the Pony are D|GBA G2B|def gdB| etc. There’s a good few other conventions but these are the main ones.

Handy way to write out your version of a tune is copy ABC of another of same tune type (jig,reel etc) in same key, paste in Wordpad etc. and then substitute your notes.

The version is your wee book will often be more interesting than something copied from elsewhere as it probably has someone else’s slant on it.

Got this version off AnnMarie Acosta, under the name “The Plains Of Mayo”.

This is also in O’Neill’s 1001, #270.

Matt Molloy’s version from his album “Back to the Island”.

https://youtu.be/dNjqIU5kONU

play video

This makes my 50th submission to the site 🙂