Out on the Ocean
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Out on the Ocean", in Gaelic("Amac air an fairge" or "Amuig ar an fairge", also known<br> as "Banks of Ahasnagh", "The Bucks of Ahasnagh", "Crossing the Bogs", "Mick Mulcahy's",<br> "Over the Sea", "O'Connell's Jig on the Top of Mount Everest", "The Portroe",<br> "Split the Whisker" or "Tierney's Jig" is an Irish double jig in G Major.<br> The parts are played AAB (Silberberg), AABB (Mallinson, Martin & Hughes, O'Neill),<br> AABB' (Tubridy) or AA'BB' (Harker/Rafferty, Songer).<br> It is a popular session jig. The melody was collected by Irish collector George Petrie<br> in the mid-19th century under the title "The Bucks of Ahasnagh".<br> Francis O'Neill learned the tune from an accomplished West Clare flute<br> player (and Chicago police patrolman) named Patrick "Big Pat" O'Mahony.<br> While the jig is almost always played in G major in modern sessions, the Boys of the<br> Lough recorded it in A major on their 1988 album Sweet Rural Shade.<br> It was printed in Flaherty's Trip to Windsor (1990),<br> Harker's 300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty (2005),<br> Mallinson's 100 Essential (1995),<br> Martin & Hughes' Ho-ro-gheallaidh (1990),<br> Mulvihill's 1st Collection (1986),<br> O'Malley's Luke O'Malley's Collection of Irish Music, vol. 1 (1976),<br> O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903),<br> O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907),<br> Peoples' Fifty Irish Fiddle Tunes (1986),<br> Silberberg's Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern (2002),<br> Songer's Portland Collection (1997) and<br> Tubridy's Irish Traditional Music, Book Two (1999).<br> It was recorded by Tommy Peoples on Iron Man (1985),<br> Matt Molloy on Heathery Breeze (1999),<br> Planxty on The Woman I Loved So Well, <br> Wild Asparagus on Tone Roads (1990) and<br> Lamprey River Band on Choose Your Partners!: Contra Dance & Square Dance Music of New<br> Hampshire (1999).<br>
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