Willie Clancy’s slide

This is a tune which appears under the heading “Unknown” in a book of Willie Clancy’s playing named “The Dance Music of Willie Clancy”. I haven’t included the ornamentation.

A strathspey version of the tune (Willie’s Fling“) can be found here
https://thesession.org/tunes/10077
and thanks to Terry McGee for identifying the tune.

I thought the single jig version warranted a posting on its own, and in the absence of any other name have just called it Willie Clancy’s.

Relevant discussion can be found here
https://thesession.org/discussions/37268

I’m pretty sure the version posted under strathspeys is actually a fling version. There’s just no fling category.

I think most irish musicians tend to play flings more like single jigs, more like hornpipes, or as reels. But not all. This is one that is still regularly played like a fling… Even many musicians who say they’re playing it like a single jig play it in a way that often doesn’t fit with other single jigs….