Morrison's Jig
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Morrison's Jig", in Gaelic "Port Uí Mhuirgheasa", also known as "Lyons' Favourite",<br> "Maurice Carmody's Favourite", "Paddy Stack's Fancy Jig" or "The Stick Across the Hob" is an<br> Irish (originally) and American jig in E Dorian. The parts are played AAB (Breathnach, Flaherty,<br> Martin & Hughes, Tubridy, Vallely), AABB' (S. Johnson, Mulvihill, Songer) or<br> AA'BB' (Harker/Rafferty, Mallinson, Spadaro).<br> This well-known tune is named after the renowned Sligo-born Irish-American fiddler James<br> "The Professor" Morrison (1891–1947), who recorded in the 1930's. <br> Morrison did not compose the jig but rather obtained it from a Dromlacht, County Kerry, accordion<br> player Tom Carmody who knew it as "The Stick across the Hob". Carmody in turn had learned it<br> from his father, Maurice.<br> O'Neill (Waifs and Strays, 1922) prints the melody as "Paddy Stack's Fancy Jig," named for the<br> Chicago fiddler (originally from County Kerry) who made some 78 RPM recordings in the 1920's.<br> "The Morning Dew" is a related setting of the melody in reel time.<br> The tune was picked up by 'revival' musicians in the 1970's and in the Northern United States<br> it has since been a popular for contra dances.<br> It was printed in Breathnach's CRÉ 1 (1963),<br> Flaherty's Trip to Sligo (1990),<br> Harker's 300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty (2005),<br> S. Johnson's Kitchen Musician No. 6: Jigs (1982, revised 1989, 2001),<br> Mallinson's 100 Essential (1995),<br> Martin & Hughes' Ho-ro-gheallaidh, vol. 1 (1990),<br> Mulvihill's 1st Collection (1986),<br> Songer's Portland Collection (1997),<br> Spadaro's 10 Cents a Dance (1980),<br> Taylor's Through the Half-Door (1992),<br> Tubridy's Irish Traditional Music, vol. 2 (1999) and<br> Vallely's Learn to Play the Fiddle with Armagh Pipers Club (197?).<br> It was recorded by P.J. Maloney on Traditional Music of Ireland, vol. 1 (c. 1960),<br> The Bothy Band on Old Hag You Have Killed Me (1981),<br> John McCutcheon on The Wind That Shakes the Barley,<br> Mike McHale on The Schoolmaster's House (2000),<br> Swallowtail on Flights of Fancy (1984),<br> Shaskeen on Joys of Life,<br> Alan Stivell on Renaissance of the Celtic Harp (1982),<br> John Doonan on At the Feis and<br> James Keane on Roll Away the Reel World.<br>
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