John Naughton’s jig

Source: “The Lonesome Touch” by Martin Hayes
Transcription: g.m.p.

I had just finished transcribing The Jug of Brown Ale from Kevin Crawford’s D Flute Album and ran an advanced search only to find that you had already posted it today under a different title! Well here’s my transcription, since it is slightly different:

X: 1
T: Jug of Brown Ale
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Ador
EAA ABd|edB cBA|BGG DGG|Bdc BAG|
EAA ABd|ede a2g|edc Bcd|1e2A BAG:|2eab ~a3|
gef g2a|gef gdc|BGG DGG|Bdc BAG|
gef g2a|gef ged|edc Bcd|eab ~a3|
gef g2a|gef gdc|BGG DGG|Bdc BAG|
EAA ABd|ede a2g|edc Bcd|e2A BAG|

…is what it’s in on the Lonesome Touch.

BTW I learnt this as “Old Man Dillon” off Terry Bingham’s album https://thesession.org/tunes/2200

Hmm, on second thoughts Martin Hayes’ setting is quite different, particularly in bars 7 & 8 of the B-part, and plays a lot differently if you keep it in G dorian.

Sure enough, Fiddler’s Companion says that John Naughton’s is a Clare version of Old Man Dillon in Gdor:

X: 1
T: John Naughton’s
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
S: Martin Hayes: The Lonesome Touch
K:GDor
DGG GAc|dfd cAG|AFF FAF|FAG FDC|
DGG GAc|def g2g|gfd cAc|1 dGG G2F:|2 dGG G2g||
|:fde f2g|fde fcB|AFF FAF|FAG FDC|
1 fde f2g|fde fdc|=B2G GAB|ced c2f :|
2 DGG GAc|def g2g|gfd cAc|dGG G2F||

Also on Mary MacNamara’s solo album as John Naughton’s. Hayes’ version is probably almost the same as MacNamara’s because they had been playing together for long. Clare musicians love odd keys, you know.

Joe Burke’s Jig (tune #1137 in these archives) is very similar.
https://thesession.org/tunes/1137

His biography can be found at Bernard Parkin’s “the East Clare Musicians Website”: http://claremusic.tripod.com There’s a nice sound clip of this jig played by Naugton himself.

This tune is played by Bríd O’Donohue on the RTÉ CD Ceol agus Foinn - Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy. It is listed as The Mug of Brown Ale, although it is clearly not the tune commonly known by that name. The below is more or less how I heard it, albeit a bare-bones version without any of Bríd’s lovely ornamentation/phrasing notated. She plays it on an Eb whistle, so I have written it down as if she was playing a D whistle.

X: 1
T: The Mug of Brown Ale
R: jig
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: Ador
D | EAG ABd | edB c2A | BGG dGG | (3Bcd B BAG |
EAG ABd | ede a2g | edc Bcd | ecA A2G :|
gef g2a | gef g2d | BGG dGG | (3Bcd B BAG |
gef g2a | gef g3 | edc Bcd | ecA A2f |
gef g2a | gef g2d | BGG dGG | (3Bcd B BAG |
EAG ABd | ede a2g | edc Bcd | ecA A2G |

As performed by Clannad on Clannad in Concert

This version comes from the CD “For the Sake of the Old Decency”,
https://thesession.org/recordings/3870
(played in the set #9 followed by The Priest in His Boots).
The booklet says:
This jig comes from the repertoire of J. Naughton, concertina player of Feakle (East Clare) but we got this version by Lucy Farr played here in another key.

The first and third settings are John Naughton’s setting of Old Man Dillon. The second, fourth and fifth are more standard versions. The sixth is a different tune entirely.