Six recordings of The Blarney Pilgrim With Merrily Kissed The Quaker The Blarney Pilgrim (jig) is also known as Dean Lloyd’s Jig #1, Jackson’s Rambles, Killoughery, Killoughery Jig No. Merrily Kissed The Quaker slide. the version is as posted above by turophile.This is my rendition on soundlantern recorded today:When I learned that tune ages ago, from an old cassette, it was played with a fourth part :I’m used to play "Merrily kissed the Quaker’s wife" with a fourth part, but it seems, apart from one or two friends, no one else plays that 4th part. Now this tune is old. Whichever way you sing it, men don't change much, do they? From Bod:If you aren’t a member of The Session yet, you can "Tabhair dom do Lamh", a well-recognised folk tune was composed by the 17th century Derry man Ruairi Dall O'Cathain, allegedly as an apology to a Scots lady he had had an argument with, Lady Eglintoun. Really old! He was until last a teacher of music at an American East Coast University. Since you can't sing the song to it, though it has the title, it seems near certain that it is derived from the simpler English/Scottish version. And merrily danced the Quaker. " At any rate, this tune is sometimes played as a double jig in sessions. - Merrily Kissed the Quacker.on the chieftans "tears of stone" they slip this in at the end of deserted soldier. Si le téléchargement de la tablature ne se lance pas vérifier que votre navigateur ne bloque pas les popups. AKA and see "Humors of Last Night (The)," "Merrily Kissed the Quaker's Wife," "Merrily Kiss the Crater. Sung here in dulcit tones by Ronnie Garlyon. It was three small booklets of tunes, I think for the whistle… I’ll see what I can dig up.Here are 2 versions of the tune picked up from transcriptions of Danny O’Donnell in "The Northern Fiddler". I think there are more complete versions of the song than any I've seen here, but the original idea probably came from inventing words "and merrily danced the quaker's wife, and merrily danced the quaker" which fitted the original tune (rather like a lot of the nonsense words associated with dance tunes such as "shave the donkey" or "chase me charlie"). Certainly, the man doesn't seem to dislike Nancy too much except for the fact that she is too expensive, and that hasn't changed much. I have them because Martha Washington used to sing it to me when I was but a bairn.Is there a way I could print out the music for this tune? Could be why its posted that why, even though many of you play it as a jig.In the ‘70’s a reliable researcher told me that the earliest known manuscript appearance of this tune was in a tune-book found in Weardale in Co. Durham, England. John Wilkes,1727-1797 stood as MP for Newcastle.

Macyn Taylor playing a medley of two traditional pieces arranged by Pierre Bensusan on a Petros Baroque parlor guitar. They needed it to fit the basic 32 bars for a dance and threw in the 4th part so that it added up to 64 bars, or 2 x 32, but of course, if you’re doing it in 12/8 that would be the equivalent of 32 bars of 12/8, 2 x 16… Ceili bands take liberties. I can't find any more detailed information about this ballad so can't be sure it is the same one. Turlough Carolah (1670-1738) wrote "Planxty Irwin" for one of his many patrons, Col. Irwin of Sligo. While in London he met MAX RINDER, a much-travelled folk-guitarist Max originally studied Classical violin in his native Vienna, before converting to the guitar, an instrument he prefers. she merrily kisses somebody....? There isn't much evidence for either idea and in any case this late of the song differs from the earlier Scottish one in which the beggar turns out to be a nobleman, who says the lass would have been his wife, had it not been for her easy virtue. The Irish version of the tune is a double jig, 2 or 3 part.