"The Fisherman's Widow", in Gaelic "Baintreabac An Iasgaire", also known as "Baxter's Big", "The Friendly Neighbor", "The Rambling Pitchfork" or "St. Patrick's Day in the Evening" is an Irish double jig in D Major. The parts are played AABB (Mulvihill, O'Neill/Krassen & 1915), AABB' (O'Neill/1850 & 1001, Doyle). The tune usually goes by the title "The Rambling Pitchfork" today. Francis O'Neill learned the tune from an accomplished West Clare flute player (and Chicago police patrolman) named Patrick "Big Pat" O'Mahony, a man of prodigious physique of whom he said: "the 'swing' of his execution was perfect, but instead of 'beating time' with his foot on the floor like most musicians he was never so much at ease as when seated in a chair tilted back against a wall, while both feet swung rhythmically like a double pendulum".
It was printed in Doyle's Plain Brown Tune Book (1997), Mulvihill's 1st Collection (1986), O'Neill (Krassen) (1976), O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903), O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907) and O'Neill's O'Neill's Irish Music (1915).
It was recorded by Seamus and Manus McGuire on Humours of Lissadell.