- Style
- Celtic
- Tradition
- Irish
- Form
- Slip jig
- Key
- D
- Level
- 3
- Played on
- Fiddle and Mandolin
In the public domain. Source
Music
100bpm
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Chord chart
History
The melody closes "The Fox Chase," a descriptive piece that piper O'Farrell printed in his Pocket Companion for the Irish or Union Pipes around 1806. Ayrshire fiddler John Hall printed the slip jig in about 1818 and credited it to the gentleman piper Walker "Piper" Jackson, though he gave no reason for the claim.
Kerry piper James Gandsey, born in 1769, was famous for it, and Michael Coleman recorded a two part version in New York in 1925. It is a favorite in Donegal and is played all over Ireland, usually with four parts, the third an octave above the first.