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The Chorus Jig
This isn’t the one on the Tommy Peoples’ album. That’s Queen Of The Rushes https://thesession.org/tunes/710.
One to play when you’re sick of the Kilfenora.
Kilfe-Chorus
Isn’t it just another setting of the Kilfenora (2nd one)
https://thesession.org/tunes/949
Great tune anyway whichever way you play it.
Dezi Donnelly does a great job on it on his Familiar Footsteps album
It’s a Scottish setting of it, and close, but not that close, Donough. It’s a closer relative to its Northumbrian equivalent the Holey Ha’penny https://thesession.org/tunes/1521.
The deed is done ~ now for some ‘English’ and ‘Country Dance’ carry on…
The Chorus Jig
Great tune! Stumbled across it in the Skye Collection (1887) so it’s at least that old.
The Chorus, X:2
Another version of this great tune, found in Aird’s "Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs", vol. 2, c 1790, nr 131. You’ll notice that it contains no f natural.
Re: The Chorus
In Gunn’s Caledonian Repository (1848), this is found as "The Herring Wife" or "Caillach nan Giuran".