Morrison's Jig

Tom Carmody, a Kerry accordion player in James Morrison's band, brought this jig to the group. He knew it from his father Maurice as "The Stick Across the Hob." Morrison (1891 to 1947), a Sligo fiddler nicknamed "The Professor," recorded it for Columbia in 1936, and his name has stayed on it since.

The record was meant to call it "Maurice Carmody's Favourite," and one pressing misprinted that as "Maurice Comedy's." Francis O'Neill had printed the same tune in 1922 under another title, "Paddy Stack's Fancy." It is one of the first jigs most session players learn, and contra dancers in the northern United States hear it often.