The Trip To Bantry jig

tune requested by slainte
Source: Open House - “Second Story”
Transcription: g.m.p.

This tune was composed by Paddy O’Brien whilst driving to a gig in Bantry House.
Good Luck Mikea.

Here’s a slightly different version from the playing of Kevin Rowsome (Leo’s grandson and 1996 Oireachtas winner). He follows this with another Paddy O’Brien tune, a three-part jig, the Coming of Spring (which is also now in the database here).

X: 1
T: Trip to Bantry
C: Paddy O’Brien (Co. Tipperary)
D: The Rowsome Tradition, Kevin Rowsome (pipes), Lorraine Hickey (fiddle)
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: A dor
D |: EAA Bcd | eaf ged | edB c2 A | B2 A GED |
| EAA Bcd | eaf g2 e | dBe dBG |1 EAG A2 G :|2 EAG AB/c/d ||
| e2 a age | dBd g2 a | ged eAA | B2 A GED |
| e2 a age | dBd g2 e | dBe dBG | EAG AB/c/d |
| e2 a age | dBd g2 a | ged eAA | B2 A GED |
| EAA Bcd | eaf g2 e | dg/g/e dBG | EAG A2 G ||

Just learnt this from a friend the other day and checked it against the version in POB’s book after looking it up on the net and discovering it was one of his compositions. Turns out Will’s transcription is most like the original, although I notice the part endings of the original are uniformly |dge dBG|EAA A2… and go up to that top G.

I was wondering why I managed to pick it up on the fly quite quickly but then I realised it was b/c the A-part’s very much like Sliabh Russell.

J.D.C. Publications Ltd., 1992
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