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Charles O’Connor jig

Also known as Charles O’Conor, Planxty Charles O’Connor, Planxty Chuck.

There are 28 recordings of this tune.

This tune has been recorded together with

Charles O’Connor has been added to 2 tune sets.

Charles O'Connor has been added to 106 tunebooks.

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Five settings

1
X: 1
T: Charles O'Connor
R: jig
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
|:A|d2A d2A|BAG FGA|Bcd ecA|dfa a2g|
fef BAB|ede AGA|dcB ABc|dAF D2:|
|:A|FAD FAD|BGB AFD|FAD FAD|GBe c2A|
f2f faf|faf fdB|e2e eae|eae ecA|
dcB AFE|FAd f2e|dcB ABc|dAF D2:|
# Added by Test .
2
X: 2
T: Charles O'Connor
R: jig
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
A|d3 d2A|BAG FGA|Bcd ecA|dfa a2g|
faf Bcd|ege ABc|dcB AFA|d3 D2:|
|:B|ABA FGA|BGB AFA|D2A FDA|GEe c2A|
faf faf|faf fdB|efe efe|efe ecA|
dcB AFA|FGA f2e|dcB AFA|d3 D2:|
3
X: 3
T: Charles O'Connor
R: jig
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
|:A|d2A d2A|BAG FGA|Bcd ecA|dfa a2g|
fgf ~B2B|efe ~A2A|dcB AFA|dAF D2:|
|:A|A2D FED|B=cB AFD|DFA DFA|GEe c2A|
f2f fgf|faf fdB|e2e efe|eae ecA|
dcB AFE|FAA f2e|dcB AFA|dAF D2:|
# Added by kiwi .
4
X: 4
T: Charles O'Connor
R: jig
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
|:d2A d2A|BAG FAA|Bcd ecA|df/g/a a2g|
fef BAB|ede AGA|dcB AFA|d2 d2:|
|:A2D F/G/AF|BG/A/B AFA|D2A FG/A/D|GEe c2A|
f2f faf|faf fdB|e2e eae|eae ecA|
dcB AFE|FAA f2e|dcB AFA|d2 d2:|
# Added by JACKB .
5
X: 5
T: Charles O'Connor
R: jig
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
|:A|d2A d2A|BAG FGA|Bcd ecA|dfa a2g|
fef BAB|ede AFA|dcB AFA|dcd d2:|
|:B|A2D FAd|BGB AFA|D2A FDA|GEe c2A|
f2f faf|faf fdB|e2e eae|eae ecA|
dcB AFE|FAd f2e|dcB AFA||dcd d2:|

Four comments

Very pretty O’Carolan tune. As played on "Frankie Gavin and Alec Finn". I think it sounds nice at jig tempo followed by Tobin’s.

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Here’s a version I picked up in a session:

X: 1
T: Charles O’Connor
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
A|d3 d2A|BAG FGA|Bcd ecA|dfa a2g|
faf Bcd|ege ABc|dcB AFA|d3 D2:|
|:B|ABA FGA|BGB AFA|D2A FDA|GEe c2A|
faf faf|faf fdB|efe efe|efe ecA|
dcB AFA|FGA f2e|dcB AFA|d3 D2:|

McGlynns setting

Just added the version that Arty McGlynn plays of this tune although I transposed it up into Dmaj from his setting of Gmaj. Only coz I like it in this key rather than in G. Very nice tune this one. First heard it in the late 1980’s on an LP late one dark night in Scarrif and remembered a few fragments, then my friend Ado Barker played it at a session last night which inspired me to get Arty’s version down. Hadn’t heard it for ages. There you go.

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Charles O’Connor, X:5

"Frankie Gavin and Alec Finn," from 1977.
None of the transcriptions capture the tune as well beautifully as Frankie played it on the eponymous LP that I’ve had forever, signed by Frankie and given to an old girlfriend who brought it with her to my house as her dowry and left it with me when she left for other climes. It took me a while, but here it is, as they played it then, absent triplets and ornaments.