Will You Come Home With Me? jig

A rollicking little jig that I hear in sessions around Toronto, and that Danu pairs with Fraher’s on their first eponymous CD. It sounds to me as though they play it a little differently than transcribed here--putting a B instead of a c in the middle of the AcA thingy in the third, seventh, eleventh and fifteenth bars sometimes--but maybe not.

Enjoy!

I’ve wondered if anyone else plays or hears this at sessions…always thought the title was appropriate for the pub scene, snicker. I know this jig with a different tag on the ending of each part, playing the last two measures as:

|~G3 AcA|BAF G2…|

We often play this after “I Buried My Wife and Danced on Her Grave,” and then often when someone asks what the two tunes were that we’d just played, will inevitably laugh and begin to fabricate their own rude little narrative……there’s actually quite a body of tunes that fall into the “rude narrative” camp, that are fun to string together in creative ways 🙂

Great wee tune! And we played it -- well the two of us who knew it did -- just Sunday past at a session somewhere in the USA.

Beautiful in its simplicity. Hypnotic.

And, now I know a name for it! We do it following / Hag at the Churn. I have also learned it with G2G ABA in the 3rd bar etc. as Michael B. noted. A variation to the B part could be dcB cBA / BDd cAF/ G2G ABA / GAG GBc

There’s a different jig in O’Neill’s that uses the name “Will You Come Home With Me?” It’s a great name but should it really be paired with this tune?

Yes.

Nicely played here by Zoe Conway and Meabh O’Hare. It’s the second tune.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzi7OhSzysw

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This jig seems to be related to the Cliffs of Moher: https://thesession.org/tunes/12

Have a look at the G major version of the Cliffs of Moher too: https://thesession.org/tunes/12#comment336345

I’ve heard it played like this:
K: Gmaj
B|dge fdc|B2d cAF|G2G ABA|GFG ABc|dge fdc|B2d cAF|G2G ABF|G3 G2:|
B|:d2B cBA|dcB cAF|G2G ABA|GFG ABc|d2B cBA|dcB cAF|G2G ABF|G3 G2:|

K: Gmaj
B|dge fdc|B2d cAF|G2G ABA|GFG ABc|dge fdc|B2d cAF|G2G ABF|G3 G2:|
B|d2B cBA|dcB cAF|G2G ABA|GFG ABc|d2B cBA|dcB cAF|G2G ABF|G3 G2:|

‘corrected’

This tune is also on the Live at Mona’s CD, but the title is listed as “Will You Come With Me?”

http://youtu.be/jJrGWblpDT0

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The tune is in PW Joyce’s 1856 manuscript under the title Hag You’ve Killed Me.
If you’ve installed the Scorch plugin you can listen to the interactive score at
http://www.itma.ie/digitallibrary/scorch_file/nli-joyce-ms-j25/16849/600

inspired by Cathal Hayden, but I couldn’t find a recording, so transcribed from recording by Three Mile Stone (Fiddle player Erin Schrader)

From the playing of Graham Wells & David Clark.

From the playing of Gillie McPherson.

Third tune of her “Lamia’s Jig” set.

Variations from the playing of Gillie McPherson.

The tune in Breathnach CRE2.8 “Tiocfaidh tú Abhaile liom” is only vaguely similar to this setting, or the other one in O’Neill’s (DMI.104). In fact it is more like Old Hag You Have Killed Me. (So I removed the link to that collection)