Drops of Brandy
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Drops of Brandy", in Gaelic "Braona Brannda" or "Braoinini Brannda", also known as<br> "Drops of Whiskey", "Hey My Nancy", "Oh Mary if My Advice You Take",<br> "Oh! Mary Take My Advice", "Jaunting Car for Six" and "Paddy was up to the Gauger"<br> is an Irish, Scottish and English slip jig in 9/8 time in G Mixolydian (Young),<br> G Major (most versions) or A Major (Martin, Silberberg, Trim). The parts are played<br> AB (O'Neill/1001, Silberberg), AAB (Tubridy), AABB (most versions), AABB' (Martin).<br> The title appears in Henry Robson's list of popular Northumbrian<br> song and dance tunes, which he published c. 1800 and also appears in the Scottish<br> Drummond Castle Manuscript in the possession of the Earl of Ancaster at Drummond Castle.<br> This latter MS is inscribed "A Collection of Country Dances written for the use of his<br> Grace the Duke of Perth by Dav. Young, 1734". An early English printing of the melody<br> is to be found in Walsh's The Compleat Country Dancing-Master, Volume the Third (1747).<br> It was printed in Ashman's The Ironbridge Hornpipe (1991),<br> Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940)("A Drop of Whiskey"),<br> Emmerson's Rantin' Pipe and Tremblin' String (1971),<br> P.M. Haverty's One Hundred Irish Airs vol. 1 (1858),<br> Hunter's Fiddle Music of Scotland (1988),<br> Kennedy's Fiddler's Tune-Book: Slip Jigs and Waltzes (1999),<br> Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 2 (c. 1880's),<br> Martin's Traditional Scottish Fiddling (2002),<br> Merryweather's Merryweather's Tunes for the English Bagpipe (1989),<br> Northumbrian Pipers' Second Tune Book (1981),<br> O'Flannagen's The Hibernia Collection (1860),<br> O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907),<br> O'Neill's O'Neill's Irish Music (1915),<br> Doyle's Plain Brown Tune Book (1997),<br> Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984),<br> Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883),<br> Silberberg's Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern (2002),<br> Sumner's Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript (1997),<br> Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 2 (1765),<br> Trim's The Musical Legacy of Thomas Hardy (1990),<br> Tubridy's Irish Traditional Music, vol. 1 (1999),<br> Westrop's 120 Country Dances, Jigs, Reels, Hornpipes, Strathspeys, Spanish Waltz etc.<br> for the Violin (c. 1923),<br> Williamson's English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish Fiddle Tunes (1976)("Drops of Whiskey"),<br> Wilson's Companion to the Ballroom (1816),<br> Wright's Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances (1740) and<br> Young's Drummond Castle/Duke of Perth Manuscript (1734).<br> It was recorded by<br> James Kelly on Traditional Irish Music (1996) and<br> Paddy Keenan on Paddy Keenan (1975).<br>
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