Dever The Dancer slip jig

I got this tune from fiddler Kevin O’Brien of Boston.

This tune is often paired with “Connie the Soldier,” as flutist John McKenna played it that way on his recordings from the late 1920s.

John Harvey

I have taken to playing this tune on top of “Kid on the Mountain” The A parts are amusing together. The B parts are are great together. Just continue with the ’Kid when you are finished with “Dever the Dancer”

Thanks for posting it John
Mark

I learned this more than 2 years ago, but haven’t played it for long until it popped out of my flute quite recently. It really goes nicely with Taim in Arrears: https://thesession.org/tunes/993 The two tune actually have similar 2nd parts.

Is it just me or should the last bar have a C# instead of a Cnat?

To answer my own question, yes some people play it with a C# in the last bar of each part. Here is the version I play which is nearly identical to the Dervish version. Dervish definatly plays it with a C#.

X: 1
T:Dever the Dancer
R:slip jig
M:9/8
K:Edor
BEE BEF ~G2A|BEE BAG FGA|BEE BEF ~G2A|Bcd ~A2G FED:|
ded =cAF ~G2D|GBd def gfe|ded =cAF ~G2A|B^cd ~A2G FED:|

Key signature: E Dorian
Submitted on May 10th 2007 by tin_whistler.

X: 1
T: Dever the Dancer
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: slip jig
K: E Dorian
|: BEE BEF G2 A | BEE BAG FGA | BEE BEF G2 A | Bcd A2 G FED :|
|: ded =cAF G3 | Add def gfe |[1 ded =cAF G2 A | Bcd A2 G FED :|
[2 afd gec d2 A | Bcd ABG FED ||

This was submitted by tin_whistler with the title “The Humours of Whiskey”, but no information as to where they’d acquired the tune or the title… Maybe in the future? 😏

“I got the title from Na Piobairi Uilleann’s Volume 1 tutor for the pipes. Which, when I first saw that title, I thought it was already taken by another tune, the version heard from the Chieftains 2 album. Such is Irish music… =) And to think, I was so happy to have finally submitted a tune, better do my homework better next time!! =) I guess the ending is different… For what it’s worth. Oops!” ~ tin_whistler

ceolachuan. I should also probably add that the ABC version I posted, is not exactly the one as given for the Volume 1 tutor for the uilleann pipes by Na Piobairi Uilleann, but a very close simulant. Thanks again,

Nice, just the way some of us like it… A ‘simulant’? 😉

The first part sounds a bit like a double time version of the butterfly and goes well into it, or after it.

Here it is played by Noel O’Grady, Gary Hastings and Noel Kenny… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQzDFIJp-oU ……first tune.

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X: 1
T: Dever the Dancer
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: slip jig
K: Emin
|: BEE BEF G2 A | BEE BAG FGA | BEE BEF G2 A | Bdd ABG FED :|
ded cAF G2 A | Bdd def gfe | deg c/B/AF G2 A | Bdd ABG FED :|

Here’s the setting I have, from several folks. It has the C#s, of course, but there is a different second ending in the B part:

X:1
T:Dever the Dancer
M:9/8
L:1/8
R:slip jig
K:Edorian
BEE BEF G2A|BEE BEG FGA|BEE BEF G2A|Bcd ABG FED:|
ded dAF G2A|~d3 def gfe|ded dAF G2A|Bcd BAG FED|!
ded dAF G2A|~d3 def gfe|afd ece d2A|Bcd ABG FED||!

Noel O’Grady, Gary Hastings & Noel Kenny - The Whinney Hills Of Leitrim Slip Jig Set
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQzDFIJp-oU

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“The Whinny Hills of Leitrim” - transcription
# Posted on April 4th 2012 by ceolachan
https://thesession.org/tunes/8976/comments

There’s a Donegal variant of this tune on Vincent Campbell’s “The Purple Heather” album. On that album the tune is titled, “Mickey Doherty’s.” There are snaps in the A section, and the endings are different. I’ll post the tune sometime in the future.

Good slip jig

Good Slip jig.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9XwyMe4jBM

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A version I first learned - very similar to Zoukboy-2000 and O’Neill’s

so many tunes are on earlier chieftains albums…they were really such an influential group and ceoltoiri chualann….rarely acknowledged but always there.

When I play this, it is dancing on the fence between two keys, with both C and C sharp being used. The C# is nonessential, and could be avoided if necessary by lengthening the preceding B note in the 4th measure, or trilling the D note in the 2nd measure of the B part.

Correction of the previous ABC entry (#9): B and ^C (C#) are matching in length, and half the length (16th note) of the following D and B notes (8th notes) in both the A and B parts.

Gian Marco’s new setting follows the O’Neil’s setting quite closely, and the B part that doesn’t simply repeat is, in my opinion, superior to those which do. That’s a mighty nice line of melody there.