Paddy Whack
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Paddy Whack", in Gaelic "Paidin an Bualadoir", also known as "Paddy Wack”,<br> “Paddy O’Whac”, “Little Peggy's”, “The Pig under the pot”, “Tommy Reck’s”,<br> “When history's muse”, “The Green Joke” or “Harp that in Darkness" <br> is an Irish, Scottish, English and American double jig and quick march in<br> G Major (Ashman, Ford, Kerr, Mulhollan, O'Neill, Peacock, Phillips, Raven, Ross),<br> D Major (Bayard) or A Major (Cole, Miller & Perron, White).<br> The parts are played AB (Bayard, Peacock, Raven), AABB (most versions) or<br> AABB' (O'Neill/1001).<br> This popular tune has been often published from the later 18th century in<br> both fiddle and fife collections; some later publications have called it<br> "Paddy O'Whack".<br> After appearing in numerous country dance volumes, “Paddy Whack” was often printed<br> in instrumental tutors such as Longman and Broderip’s Entire New and Compleat<br> Instructions for the Fife (c. 1780), Thompson’s Compleat Tutor for the Hautboy (1790),<br> Wilson’s Pocket Preceptor for the Fife (1805), and<br> Clementi’s Entire New and Compleat Instructions for the Fife (c 1815),<br> and, in America, Joshua Cushing’s Fifer’s Companion No. 1 (1805),<br> David Hazeltine’s Instructor in Martial Music (c. 1810), and<br> Gilford’s Gentleman’s Pocket Companion for the Flute or Violin (c. 1802).<br> Several songs have been set to the air, including the British<br> "Villikins and His Dinah", the Irish partisan song "The Old Orange Flute", the<br> bawdy song "The Thrashing Machine" and the American song<br> "Sweet Betsy from Pike".<br> County Cork cleric, uilleann piper<br> and collector James Goodman entered the tune into his mid-19th century music<br> manuscript collection as "Pig under the Pot". He also entered a five-part<br> setting of the tune in Book 4 of his collection as "Paddy Whack". <br> It was printed in<br> Aird's Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 1 (1782),<br> Ashman's The Ironbridge Hornpipe (1991),<br> Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1981),<br> Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940),<br> Ford's Traditional Music in America (1940),<br> Frank Harding's Harding's Original Collection (1897),<br> P.M. Haverty's One Hundred Irish Airs vol. 1 (1858),<br> Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 1 (c. 1880),<br> Johnson's A Further Collection of Dances, Marches, Minuetts and Duetts<br> of the Latter 18th Century (1998),<br> Knowles' The Joseph Kershaw Manuscript (1993),<br> Levey's Dance Music of Ireland, 2nd Collection (1873),<br> Miller & Perron's New England Fiddler’s Repertoire (1983),<br> Mulhollan's Selection of Irish and Scots Tunes (1804),<br> O'Flannagan's The Hibernia Collection (1860),<br> Krassen's O'Neill's Music of Ireland (1976),<br> O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903),<br> O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907),<br> Peacock's Peacock’s Tunes (1805),<br> Phillips' Fiddlecase Tunebook: British Isles (1989),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2 (1995),<br> Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984),<br> Robbins Music Corp.'s The Robbins collection of 200 jigs, reels and<br> country dances (1933),<br> Robert Ross' Choice Collection of Scots Reels or Country Dances &<br> Strathspeys (1780),<br> Ryan’s Mammoth Collection (1883),<br> Samuel, Anne & Peter Thompson's The Hibernian Muse (1787),<br> White’s Unique Collection (1896) and<br> Geoff Woolfe's William Winter’s Quantocks Tune Book (2007).<br> <br>
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