Billy McCormack’s jig

This is my first shot at posting a tune here. Did a thorough search of the site and did not come up with any tune that matched this one (different from the Paddy Cronin’s Jig already listed), so hopefully I’m not missing something. I also downloaded an ABC program and the notation checked out, so I’ve got my fingers crossed that my attempt to push myself and learn this notation has proved successful.

Anywho, I got this tune from a workshop at the Catskills Irish festival with June McCormack in the summer of 2004. There’s a second Paddy Cronin’s that she taught us that I will post shortly as well.

For purposes of keeping the notation simple, I’ve excluded the cuts and ornamentation that she included. I also exlcuded a variation that happens in the B part. It’s in the second measure and goes as such:

|abc bge| (as opposed to |aga bge|)

Utilizes the high C natural, a note that I know I don’t personally use that much.

Ok, that’s all the info I have on this tune.

Here’s the second Paddy Cronin tune that June taught at the workshop:

https://thesession.org/tunes/4598

Just posted it today.

I just purchased the book released by June McCormack entitled "Fliuit" (accent over the u). In it she includes the tune that she had originally taught us as "Paddy Cronin’s". However, she has the tune listed as "Billy McCormack’s Jig" so I have updated the name here. I have also seen this tune called that on a few recordings I have purchased recently, so that is obviously the accepted name for it. June does note though in her book that "This jig was popularised by the playing of Kerry Fiddle player, Paddy Cronin."

In regards to the tune itself, the only major difference between her notation in her book and what I’ve included here is that she rolls the G in the 3rd measure instead of playing GzG. She also makes a few other indications of cuts, bounces, and rolls, but again, I’ll just keep the version here simple.

Also on Sligo flute player and singer Colm O’Donnell’s solo recording "Farewell to Evening Dances." The last of Paddy Cronin’s jigs.

This is quite an old tune. It’s in O’Neill’s as "Billy McCormick". It appears on the Mulcahy Family’s "Notes From The Heart" in Edor:

X: 1
T: Billy McCormack’s
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
S: Mulcahy Family
K: Edor
EFD E2d|BAF dAF|DED ~F3|AFD EDB,|
EFD E2d|BAF ABc|~d3 BdB|1 AFD EB,D:|2 AFD E2d||
|:efe edB|efg fdB|~d3 dAG|~F3 ABd|
efe edB|BAF ABc|~d3 BdB|1 AFD E2d:|2 AFD EB,D||

Watch June McCormack and Mícheál Rooney playing this tune together: http://comhaltas.ie/music/detail/comhaltaslive_269_1_june_mccormack_and_micheal_rooney

Here’s a great version by June McCormack and Mícheál Rooney…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae2867YU62E

play video

Woops, sorry, I’ve just noticed slainte put the same link up. Lovely playing though and worth a listen.

Key signature: A Dorian
Submitted on October 16th 2008 by bogman.
~ /tunes/9005

X: 3
T: Paddy Cronin’s
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Ador
|: E |\
ABG A2 g | edg gdB | GGG BAG | dBG AGE |
ABG A2 g | edB def | g2 e fdB | BAG A2 :|
|: e |\
aa/a/a bge | aaa bge | ggg gdB | GAB deg |
a2 b age | edB ded | g2 e fdB | BAG A2 :|

A very nice jig I picked up from this youtube of June McCormack and Mícheál Rooney……..

# Posted on October 16th 2008 by bogman

This is a great jig but you don’t hear it much…Paddy Cronin’s version is superb.

X:1
T:Billy McCormick’s
S:Paddy Cronin-"Kerry’s Own Paddy Cronin" (Outlet Records 1977)
M:6/8
L:1/8
Q:3/8=120
R:Jig
K:Ador
|ABA ABg|edB gdB|~G3 BAG|dBG AGE|
ABA ABg|edB def|gfe fd(B|{d}B)AG A3:|
|:~a3 age|aba age|~g3 gdB|GAB deg|
~a3 age|edB def|gfe fd(B|{d}B)AG A3:|

That’s the way I play this beautiful tune.

by Gavin Whelan on the whistle on track 12 of his album, "In Full Flight", 3rd tune in a set of jigs (follows The Flying Wheelchair). I’m reluctant to add The Kilmaley as an alternate title as Gavin is a notoriously careless tune namer. It took me a long time to sleuth out the actual title of this jig…had to actually learn it and play it through TunePal ;)