Jack Is Yet Alive reel

Version from High Level Ranters “Four In A Bar”, transcribed by Alex Boydell:

|:G3B A3c|dBcA BGFD|G3B A3c|dBcA G2G2:|
g2ga f2fg|efge afdf|g2ga f2fg|egfa g2G2|
gggg ffff|eeeg afdf|g2dB e2cA|dBcA G2G2||

Thanks Alex. I thought that since it was a duplicate it might get wiped so I stored it in my profile and then cut & pasted it!

Thanks Dow..The HLR play Chips and Shavens, Jack’s Alive and Dear Tobacco. Its a favourite set of mine as it was the first set I played publically in a session (and still do! )I some times follow Jack’s alive with Abraham Mackintosh’s jig version…K.G. 6/8 1/8
g2G GAB|A2A ABC|d2B c2A| B2G FED| G2G GAB|
A2A ABC|dBd cBA| G3 G3:||
||:g2g gbg|f2f faf|efg agf| G3G3:||gbg gbg|faf faf|efe efg|abg fed| gab Bcd|efg ABC| dcB AGF| G3 G3||

Great tune off the Album “Our Dear Dark Mountain” and the notes in the sleeve say it is a Monaghan tune

Surely a variant of the Shetland tune “Jack Is Yet Alive” https://thesession.org/tunes/3299.

Agreed DonaldK but ?different enough to have its own listing that links to the recording

Tom Anderson learned this tune from his grandfather and is supposed to date from the days of the press gang, according to the sleeve notes on The Silver Bow.

“Jack’s Alive” is in the Grier manuscripts which were compiled around the 1880s (and that setting is in Ceol Rince na h’Eireann Vol.4), and in a slightly different setting in Ryan’s Mammoth Collection of 1883.

As a jig it’s also in Ryan’s under the title “Dusty Bob” and in the Vickers MS as “Jack’s Alive” (Matt Seattle in his exhaustive notes to the Great Northern Tunebook cites several settings from the 18th century on).