"The Sailor on the Rock", in Gaelic "Maraí ar an gCarraig" or "An Mairnéalach ar an gCarraig", sometimes known as "Johnny with the Queer Thing" is an Irish reel in cut time and D Major.The parts are played AB (Miller & Perron, Taylor/Half-Door, Tubridy), AAB (DeMarco & Krassen), AA’B (Taylor/Sets, Taylor/Tweed), AABB (Flaherty, McGuire & Keegan) or AA'BB' (O'Neill). The earliest appearance of this tune in print is in Boston music publisher Elias Howe's 1000 Jigs and Reels (c. 1867), a post-Civil War compendium of tunes that Howe himself collected from New England musicians and numerous others that he gleaned from a variety of publications. Howe's title for the tune was only the generic "A Favorite Reel" with no alternate title and was collected from a local musician, Jimmy Norton, "The Boss Jig Player", whose repertoire included many Irish tunes. “Sailor on the Rock” was said to have been a local Leitrim tune that McKenna brought into the standard repertoire through his influential 78 RPM recording. It was also recorded in New York in 1922 by Michael Coleman (1891-1945), originally from Killavil, County Sligo. A similarly titled, but unrelated, tune is "The Sail Round the Rocks". It was printed in Bulmer & Sharpley's Music from Ireland, vol. 3 (1976), DeMarco & Krassen's A Trip to Sligo (1978), Flaherty's Trip to Sligo (1990), Howe's 1000 Jigs and Reels (c. 1867)(as “A Favorite Reel”), McGuire & Keegan's Irish Tunes by the 100, vol. 1 (1975), Miller & Perron's Irish Traditional Fiddle Music, vol. 1 (1977), Miller & Perron's Irish Traditional Fiddle Music, 2nd Edition (2006), O'Neill (Krassen) (1976), Taylor's Through the Half-door (1992), Taylor's Traditional Irish Music: Karen Tweed’s Irish Choice (1994), Taylor's Music for the Sets: Yellow Book (1995) and Tubridy's Irish Traditional Music, vol. 1 (1999). It was recorded by Dermy Diamond, Tara Diamond, Dáithí Sproule on Seanchairde/Old Friends (2009), Michael Coleman on Michael Coleman 1891-1945 (1992), Frankie Gavin on Frankie Goes to Town (1991), Moving Cloud on Moving Cloud (1995), Chieftains on Chieftains 3 (1971/1982), Shaskeen on Shaskeen Live, Néillidh Mulligan on The Leitrim Thrush and (78 RPM) Dan Sullivan's Shamrock Band (1929).