The Sporting Pitchfork
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Sporting Pitchfork" is an Irish double jig in G Major or D Mixolydian.<br> The parts are played AB.<br> It is often played in a medley with<br> "The Rambling Pitchfork".<br> I can't find any explanation of the term "sporting pitchfork" but if "rambling pitchfork"<br> means an itinerant farmhand, perhaps "sporting pitchfork" refers to one who is athletic.<br> The jig has been associated with uilleann pipe repertory. The tune was <br> paired with “The Rambling Pitchfork” on the 1978 Paddy Glackin/Paddy Keenan album<br> Doublin’. The medley was known as "The Pitchforks".<br> It was printed in Bulmer & Sharpley's Music from Ireland vol. 3 (1976),<br> Cranitch's Irish Fiddle Book (1996),<br> Cranitch's Irish Session Tunes: Red Book (2000).<br> It was recorded by Mick O'Brien on Kitty Lie Over (2003),<br> Tommy Peoples on Recorded at Fiddler’s Hearth (2005),<br> Alan & John Kelly on Fourmilehouse (2002),<br> Ronan Browne and Peter O'Loughlin on The Legacy (2015) and<br> Paddy Glackin and Paddy Keenan on Doublin’ (1978).<br>
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