Mike Cooney’s Fancy jig

This is the last tune on the album ‘Angelina Carberry and Martin Quinn’.

The last two notes of the first bar can be attractively varied at will by substituting ge for AA

Plenty of room for simple or complex ornamentation at the sign of the ~ .

Nice tune, Pete. Definitely one to add to the immediate playlist. Thanks.

Here’s how Liz and Yvonne Kane play this on their cd, Under the Diamond. Their liner notes say Eileen O’Brien gave them this name for the tune and said her father, Paddy O’Brien, wrote the tune,

X: 1
T: Mike Cooney’s Fancy
C: Paddy O’Brien
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
D: Under the Diamond, Liz and Yvonne Kane
K: Gmaj
D|:GAB cAA|dcA G2g|gfd cAG|ADE FGA|
B2 G c{d}cA|dcA dfa|~g3 afd|cAF G2 D:||
GBd ~g3|dBG GAB|c2 =f fef|cAc =fcA|
d2 g {a}gfg|dcA =f2 a|gfd cAF|GAG G2 D|
GBd ~g3|dBG GAB|c2 =f fef|cAc =fcA|
B2 d c2 A|dcA dfa|~g3 afd|cAF G2 D||

This tune is actually recorded as “Paddy Fahey’s” on Angelina Carberry & Martin Quinn’s duet album. “Rooney’s Favourite” is the other tune of the same track.

J.D.C. Publications Litd., 1992

Page 9: “Mike Cooney’s Fancy”

Comhaltas notes that “Mike Cooney was the drummer in Paddy O’Brien’s Ormond Céilí Band, which won four All-Ireland titles, including the three-in-a-row 1979/1980/1981 and again in 1984.”

Mairéad Corridan from Co. Limerick (concertina) plays this tune followed by “The Humours Of Ballyloughlin.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVdxnya3bKY&feature=user

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https://thesession.org/tunes/8869

Here’s a mighty rendition of the tune: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwG9IxkAubs

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As played by Mike and Mary Rafferty on the Cherish The Ladies Fathers and Daughters record.