The Maid On The Green jig

Source: Mary Bergin
Transcription: g.m.p.

Listen to Seamus Tansey playing this tune: http://www.rte.ie/radio1/ceilihouse/rams/24july.ram (starts around 22:50) What a man he is!

The second part of the tune is more often played like this:

d|gfg afd|~g3 ~a3|g2g eag|fdd d2a|
bag agf|~g3 e2d|Bee dBA|BGF G2:|

I guess there’s tons of variations on a tune like this. The version I know is a bit different in both the A and B parts::

X: 1
T: Maid On The Green, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Gmaj
d|gag e2d|Bee dBA|BAG AGA|BAA A2d|
gfg e2d|Bee dBA|BAG dBA|AGG G2:|
e|ggg aff|ggg a2e|ggg egg|ffe d2e|
bbb aaa|ggg e2d|Bde dBA|AGG G2:|

As an after thought: I guess you could substitute the same-note triplets in the version I know for the trills that Slainte and Gian Marco have.

Go here for a setting in D: https://thesession.org/tunes/3202.

"The Blackthorn Stick"
Key signature: G Major
Submitted on May 27th 2002 by kardshark87.
https://thesession.org/tunes/702

"Mick McGarry’s Jig" (already given just previously by Dow)
Key signature: D Major
Submitted on June 24th 2004 by Dow.
https://thesession.org/tunes/3202

Key signature: G Major
Submitted on March 8th 2008 by ceolachan.
https://thesession.org/tunes/8328

X: 4
T: Maid on the Green
R: Jig
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: G
|: B/c/d |\
gfg e2 d | Bge dBA | BGG dGG | BAA AB/c/d |
gfg e2 d | BeB dBA | BGG dBA | AGF G :|
|: B/c/d |\
|: gfg afd | gfg abc’ | bag agf | gef g2 a |
[1 bg/a/b afa | gfg e2 d | BeB dBA | AGF G :|
[2 bc’b ac/b/a | gea gdB | GeB dBA | AGF G |]

[2 bc’b ac’/b/a | gea gdB | GeB dBA | AGF G |]

Huh, I was sure I’d corrected that before posting it… I seem to have missed that second high c’….

X: 1
T: Maid On The Green, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Gmaj
d|:g(3ggg e2d|B(3eee dBA|BAG AGA|BAA A2G|
g(3ggg e2d|B(3eee dBA|BAG dBA|BGGG2:|
e|:gggaee |ggga2e |ggg egg|ffe d2e|
bbb aaa|ggg e2d|Bde dBA|BGGG:|


perhaps becuase i learnt it this way i find this arrangement much nicer, the descending high notes in the b part are fun to ornamnent.

I got this from a 1995 CD by piper Pat Broaders and singer/guitarist/’zouk player Jimmie Moore that I just found used at a pawn shop foe 25 cents. Broaders studied with Leon Rowsome and Tommy Reck before moving to Chicago.Here’s his website : http://patbroaders.com/ When I get a chance I’ll add the CD to the Recordings

Broader calls it Patsy Touhy’s. Touhy did record it, and I have some of his recordings but the sound quality makes them hard to listen to, so I’m not sure if this tune is on the disc I have.

by Conal Ó Gráda and John Wynne (@1:21):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y19Gf_cNWBA

play video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEW1HQBk4WM

play video

See https://thesession.org/tunes/14934

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VJRhJB795c

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As played (more or less) on the "New Broom" album by Mike Rafferty and Willie Kelly.

From the playing of Poppy Seeds.