Andy McGann’s jig

Composer: Andy McGann.

This is a jig composed by McGann, not the reel (composed by Lad O’Beirne, I think). I learned the posted version of the jig as a gan ainm, and after a web search found it on Bill Black’s excellent site:

http://www.qmcorp.net/webabc/

Bill tells me he got it directly from Andy McGann himself, and that Andy composed it on the black keys of a piano a la Irving Berlin! I wondered if maybe I should post Bills’s version, which would be closer to the original, except that’s not how my friend’s and I play it. If these tunes are living, growing things, my ABCs are just a snapshot, anyway. I sincerely hope that’s not too blithe an attitude; say so if you disagree.

On “A Tribute to Michael Coleman”, McGann, Burke and Dolan play it as the first tune on track 13 (followed by “The Old Grey Goose”)

Here is the version from Bill Black’s site:

X: 012031
T: Andy McGann’s Jig
C: Andy McGann
L: 1/8
M: 6/8
R: jig
Q: 1/4=165
K: D
A, | DEF EDB, | DFA dcd | edB AFD | F/G/AF ECA, |
DEF EDB, | DFA dcd | edB AFD | EDC D2 :|

Apologies for the sloppy cut-and-paste. Post in haste, repent at leisure. HERE is the version from Bill Black’s site:

X: 012031
T: Andy McGann’s Jig
C: Andy McGann
L: 1/8
M: 6/8
R: jig
Q: 1/4=165
K: D
A, | DEF EDB, | DFA dcd | edB AFD | F/G/AF ECA, |
DEF EDB, | DFA dcd | edB AFD | EDC D2 :|
A | dcd ede | fdB AFA | B/c/dB AFD | FEE EFA |
dcd ede | fdB AFA | B/c/dB AFE | FDD D2A |
d2f ede | fdB AFA | dcB AFD | CEC A,CE |
ABc d2f | edB AFD | FEF DEF | EDC D2 ||

your sheet music in incorrect

I thought maybe I had found a new tune (Tunepal came up empty) so I entered it in the software and transposed it to DM and found it here with Tunepal. I should have searched by title but oh well. Here it is in G Maj as it is played on the Flute Players of Roscommon by Patsy Hanley and Frank Jordon.