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The man who passed along this jig was Brother Gillis, an uillean piper and a member of the Cork City pipers club that flourished before and after the turn of the century. He gave the jig to John Potts during the 1920s. John in turn gave the tune to his fiddler son Tommy, whom I often heard play it. The version here is Tommy’s interpretation of the tune.
A2 B c c2 | dcd e2 A |{/B} AGA cBc | dcA AGE |
A/B/AA B c2 | dcd efg | aba ged | ^cAA Aed ||
cA/c/A Bcc | dcd e2 A | B/A/GA cce | dcA AGE |
A/B/AA Bcc | dcd efg | aba ged | ^cAA A2 a ||
eaa aba | gef ged | eaa aba | gef g2 b |
eaa aba | gef ged | cde e2 d | cAA A2 a ||
eaa aba | gef g/f/ed | eaa aba | gef g2 b |
eaa aba | gef g/f/ed | cde e2 d | cAA Aed ||
cAA Bcc | dcd e2 E | A3 Bcc | dcA AGE |
AAA cAA | dAA ede | aba ged | ^cAA Aed ||
cAA Bcc | dcd e2 A |{/B} AGA c2 e | dcA AGE |
A/B/AA Bcc | dcd efg | aba ged | ^cAA A2 a ||
eaa aba | gef g/f/ed | eaa aba | gef g2 b |
eaa aba | gef g/f/ed | cde e2 d | cAA A2 a ||
eaa aba | gef g/f/ed | eaa aba | gef g2 b |
eaa aba | gef ged | cde e2 d | cAA A3 |