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