Currants For Cakes And Raisins For Everything jig

This version copied and pasted from a discussion submission by LH credit to him/her. There’s a very nice recording of this tune on Joe Burke’s “The Morning Mist paired with ”THe Frog in the Well". I was surprised not to find it already posted by someone.

I think composed by Joe’s wife, the equally-talented Anne Conroy-Burke.

Hi macbox, I’m LH and I’m a her.

Actually this entry is not in its correct setting. The key of the tune is not Ddor and a number of the notes diverge from the original. I had purposely not submitted it as a formal entry in the tune database - because it was not the original version of the tune. So just wanted to add some important information about this. Here is the original setting which has since been sent to me by Joe and Anne Burke. This is the way Anne composed the tune.

X:462
T:Currants for Cakes and Raisins for Everything
C:composed by and © Anne Conroy-Burke 2001 IMRO - MCPS
S:Joe Burke, Anne Conroy Burke
D:The Morning Mist (New Century Music, 2002). Joe, Anne Burke, Charlie Lennon.
Z:transcribed into abc by Lesl from Anne Conroy-Burke’s notation
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:D
dfd cde|dfd AFA|DFA dAF|GEE EFG|
FDF AFd|Aaf gfe|dAF BAG|FDD D3:|
|:EFG A2d|FdF AFD|EFG A2G| E=CE GFE|
FDF AFd|Aaf gfe|dAF BAG|FDD D3:||

I have also now submitted this as an additional entry https://thesession.org/tunes/8610 which I hope shows up, as it is important that this be available in its original form from the living composer.
Best, Lesl

Don’t know why the composer’s own tune was not put up here, but the original form of it, by the composer, Ann Conroy- Burke, is now on the web here:

http://www.firescribble.net/rafferty/composersheets/462.%20Currants.pdf

Lesl

The third setting is *mostly* based on Edel Fox’s version on her solo album. She learned the tune from Clare fiddler James Cullinan, who now lives around where Edel comes from.

This is how the jig was taught to me by David Munnelly (on C#/D box).

The “chord symbols” in X:4 setting are the bass notes that can be played on the left-hand side of the box. But they might suggest something to other accompanists. (So E just means an E bass note, not an E major chord -- clearly an E minor chord, or some E modal chord would be appropriate).