Scully Casey’s jig

Source: Kevin Burke, Jackie Daly - Eavesdropper (1981)
Transcription: gmp

Thanks for a great tune.

This is Young Tom Ennis, aka Banshee’s Wail over the Mangle Pit, already here: https://thesession.org/tunes/131, with Hiroyuki’s A dorian setting (from KEvin Crawford’s In Good Company) in the comments.

Will, I requested this tune and believe it’s different from Yong Tom Ennis. The first part sounds similar though.

Hi,

This is definitely not YTE. The setting here is a little eccentric compared to what’s normally played around. It’s a Bobby Casey tune, I believe.

X: 1
T: Scully Casey’s
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Ador
c2A BAG|EAA EAA|cBc dcd|ega ged|
c2A BAG|EAA EAA|cBc dBG|BAA A2B:|
cBc dcd|ega ged|ega aga|aba ged|
cBc dcd|ega ged|c2e dBG|BAA A2B|
cBc dcd|ega ged|ega aga|aba ged|
eab c’ba|gea ged|c2e dBG|BAA A2B|

The version we play is from Frankie Kennedy with
c2A BAG|EAA =FAA as bars 1,2 and 3,4.

Hope this useful!

Jim

could someone transfer the ABC into sheet music? thanks.

Sorry, that variant should have read “as bars 1,2 and 5,6” - not 3,4. But everyone spotted that, didn’t you?

Jim

I still say it’s the same tune, or clearly a variant of YTE (or vice versa). It’s closer to YTE than, say, the Clare and Sligo settings of Toss the Feathers are to each other. You could back it with the same chord progression. Also closely related to Wallop the Potlid (aka Mouse in the Cupboard): https://thesession.org/tunes/1454.

BTW, Scully (John) was Bobby’s father and significant source of tunes.

Here’s a simple version of the tune based on Claire Keville and John Weir’s concertina and fiddle duet playing:

K: Ador
B|c2A BAG|EAA GAB|c2c dcd|ega ged|
c2A BAG|EAA GAB|c2e dBG|BAG A2:|
B|c2c dcd|ega ged|eaa aga|bag a2g|
eaa c’aa|b2a ged|c2e dBG|BAG A2:|

They actually recorded it in a different key as “Bobby Casey’s.”

So, perhaps this was originally Scully Casey’s personalised version of “Mouse in the Cupboard.”

No recording of Scully himself, but you can listen to Junior Crehan play this: http://www.rte.ie/radio1/ceilihouse/rams/7august.ram (the second tune in the set starting around 27:00: from Ceili House Archive 2004: http://www.rte.ie/radio1/ceilihouse/1015163.html)

Source: Paddy Canny - Traditional music from the legendary east clare
Transcription: gian marco pietrasanta

Note: Merry Christmas!

Lovely jig but surprised I haven’t heard it before particularly down here in Clare. Thanks Gian Marco and a very Happy Christmas to you.

Gian Marco, you’ve already posted the tune in Ador: https://thesession.org/tunes/3437

In the “Northern Fiddler” this tune is notated as “Untitled Jig” based on the playing of Tyrone fiddler Peter Turbit.

X: 1
T: Scully Casey’s
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: Jig
K: Adorian
AB||:c2A BAG|EAA EAB|cBc dcd|eaf ged|
c2A BAG|EAA EAB|ceg dBG|EA^G A2 B:||
cBc dcd|eaf ged|ef^g a2a|aba ged|
cBc dcd|eaf ged|ceg dBG|EA^G A2B:||

Gdor version 🙂

From the playing of Micheal O’Raghallaigh on The Nervous Man. My best attempt at a transcription.