Old Man Dillon jig

This is a great Jig. I first heard it on Trouble in The Kitchen’s cd "Down the broom". I then took it to a local session telling everyone i’d found this great tune only to find out they’d been playing it for ages. Ooops….I think they thought i should have noticed 🙂
Lovely tune all the same.

The mode is Ador.

X: 1
T: Old Man Dillon
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
S: Terry Bingham: Traditional Irish Music From Doolin Co. Clare
K: Ador
EAA ABd|edB c2A|BGG dGG|Bdc BAG|
EAA ABd|ede a2g|edc Bcd|1 ecA A2G:|2 ecA A2a||
|:gef g2a|gef gdc|BGG dGG|Bdc BAG|
1 gef g2a|gef gdg|edc Bcd|ecA A2f:|
2 EAA ABd|ede a2g|edc Bcd|ecA ABG||

This is one of the first jigs I ever learned. Can’t recall the source, but it was referred to as Mug of Brown Ale. With some differences from the above versions:

T: Mug of Brown Ale
T: Old Man Dillon
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: A dor
EAA ABd|edB c2 A|BGG DGG|~B3 BAG|
EAA ABd|edB gfg|edc Bcd|1 eAA A2 G:|2 eAA A2 f||
gef g2 a|gef gdc|BGG DGG|~B3 BAG|
gef g2 a|gef gfg|edc Bcd|eAA A2 f|
gef g2 a|gef gdc|BGG DGG|~B3 BAG|
EAA ABd|edB gfg|edc Bcd|eAA A2 G||

Some more versions of the tune: https://thesession.org/tunes/2393

Old Man Dillon (not Dylan) was the name of O’Neill’s source; Mug of Brown Ale is the name used by Kerr (but under Irish JIgs, though in those days that was as a much a typological term as an attribution of origin).

Well I’ll be… I always thought this tune’s namesake was an antique musical instrument.

X: 4
T: The Mug of Brown Ale
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: G Major
|: G |\
EAA ABd | edB c2 A | BGG DGG | Bdc BAG |
EAA ABd | ede a2 e | edc Bcd | ecA A2 :|
|: e/f/ |\
gef g2 a | gef g2 d | BGG DGG | B/c/dc BAG |
[1 gef g2 a | gef g2 d | edc Bcd | ecA A2 :|
[2 EAA ABd | ede a2 e | edc Bcd | ecA A2 |]

Michael Dunn is likely the current longest serving and oldest Irish fiddler in Lancashire, a great character and good craic…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/northernireland/blasceoil/wrapper/rokane_song4?size=16x9&bgc=C0C0C0&nbram=1&bbram=1&nbwm=1&bbwm=1
Ruadhraí O’Kane with Desy Adams and Stevie Dunn - Munster Jig/Herman’s Hostel/Michelle O’Sullivan’s</a>

T Foga Bella
R Jig
L 1/8
K A Dorian

G| E<AA A2 B| c<Bc e<dc | B<GG d<GG| B/c/ dc B<AG|
E<AA A2 B| c<de a<gf| e<dc B<cd|1 e<^de A2 G :|| 2 e<^dc A2 a||
g<ef g2 a| g<e f g3| G<AG B<AG| B/c/ dc B<AG|
E<AA A2 B| c<de a<gf| e<dc B<cd|1 e<^de A2 G :|| 2 e<^dc A2||

I know this tune as Foga Bella (see Dixon’s “The Boys Like Beer”)
attributing this to James Hill, as does Tommy Armstrong’s manuscript. This is attribution is now thought to be doubtful!
This is how I play it…Stewart Hardy plays it in a minor mode of B. I just love it.

The comment re Ruadhraí O’Kane and co playing this tune is incorrect, and the tune Herman’s Hostel is on fact not in the data base and was written by Ruadhraí O’Kane.

I have a friend that plays these with C#s and I really like the extra color so I thought I’d share this setting. This is from a Paul O’Shaughnessy video I found on Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfZfIDsSLC0

play video

This was the new tune for the Slow Session class, Lake School Of Celtic Music, Song & Dance Each year the Slow Session class learns a new tune. The rest of the tunes played are from a booklet compiled by the tutors a long time ago. (About 2008, maybe earlier.)