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"The Trip to Sligo" also known as "Daugherty's Jig", "Lark in the Morning" (O’Neill),
"Road to Sligo", "Stealing Apples" and "When I Parted" is an Irish single jig in 6/8 time and
E Aeolian/Dorian. The parts are played AABB.
The melody was recorded in New York in 1927 (under the title “Daugherty’s”) by famed Sligo fiddler Michael Coleman (1891-1945) as the first tune in a medley with “Tell Her I Am.” The tune is derived from the Scottish "Tom come tickle me" from David Young’s MacFarlane Manuscript (c. 1740). A version called "When I Parted" was included in a music manuscript of Radcliffe, Lancashire, musician Ellis Knowles (c. 1847). It was printed in Brody's Fiddler’s Fakebook (1983), Miller & Perron's Irish Traditional Fiddle Music, 2nd Edition (2006), O'Neill (Krassen) (1976), Phillips' Fiddlecase Tunebook: British Isles (1989), Songer's Portland Collection (1997) and Vallely's Learn to Play the Tin Whistle with the Armagh Pipers Club, vol. 2. It was recorded by The Chieftains on Chieftains 3 (1971), Ken Perlman on Melodic Clawhammer Banjo, Red Clay Ramblers on Hard Times (1981) and Michael Coleman. |