Key signature: Amajor
Submitted on July 24th 2004 by RogueFiddler.
This tune has been added to 26 tunebooks.
Also known as Jackson's Bottle Of Brandy, Tommy Peoples'.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Jackson's
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Amaj
|:A2A cee|fec ecB|A2A cee|fec B2B|
A2A cee|fec efa|abf ecA|B2B cAF:|
|:aba gag|fgf ecA|aba gfe|fbb bag|
aba gag|fgf ecA|ABc ecA|B2B cAF:|
|:A2f ecA|c2c ecB|A2f ecA|B2B cAF|
A2f ecA|c2c efa|abf ecA|B2B cAF:|
I gave up playing this tune at sessions as eejits who come only to play and not to listen invariably launched into "Pay the Reckoning".
# Posted on July 24th 2004 by LongNote
I thought maybe this was the Jackson's jig that Brendan Mulvihill just taught our class at Irish Arts Week in the Catskills, but I took a look at the abc's and it's a completely different tune....
# Posted on July 25th 2004 by Andee
Although, I've heard this tune many different places, I transcribed this one off a cut from The Boys Of The Lough recording "Lochaber No More". It was part of a set with "Blarney Pilgrim".
# Posted on July 25th 2004 by RogueFiddler
More info about this tune from JC's site...
Composed probably "by a gentleman piper and fiddler called ( "Piper" Jackson (whose first name was either “Walter” or “Walker”), who lived in either Co. Limerick or Co. Monaghan, in the mid-18th century. It is also claimed that he wrote the well-known 'Irish Washerwoman', as well as a great many other tunes, mainly jigs." Source for notated version: Co. Donegal fiddler Tommy Peoples [Boys of the Lough]. Boys of the Lough, 1977; pg. 19. Green Linnet SIF-3041, Matt Molloy - "Stony Steps" (1989). Green Linnet SIF-104, Matt Molloy - "The Celts RIse Again" (1990).
# Posted on July 28th 2004 by RogueFiddler
The C part becomes the A part and the A is dropped on Live at Mona. They title it Jackson's Bottle of Brandy.
# Posted on June 2nd 2005 by RogueFiddler
Jackson's Jug of Punch
Here is the tune as played on "LIve at Mona's" properly transposed to Gmaj...
X:1
T:Jackson's Jug of Punch
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:jig
K:Gmaj
S: Live at Mona's
|:G2e dBG|B2B dBA|G2e dBG|A2A BGE|
G2e dBG|B2B deg|gae dBG|A2A BGE:|
|:gag fgf|efe dBG|gag fed|eaa agf|
gag fgf|efe dBG|GAB dBG|A2A BGE:|
# Posted on June 30th 2005 by RogueFiddler
Oops ... should be Bottle of Brandy ... not Jug of Punch
I need a holiday. Sorry folks.
# Posted on June 30th 2005 by RogueFiddler
Bottle of Brandy
This name is in the Gunn Book of Fermanagh - but it's a different tune. The tune in the Gunn Book of this name is in O'Neill's as Donal na Greine (Daniel of the Sun).
Jackson's Bottle of Brandy is also known as Jackson's s Jug of Punch - and Pay the Reckoning. An old piping tune
# Posted on November 12th 2009 by The Archivist
Another source
This tune appears also in Bulmer and Sharpley's Music of Ireland (book 2, tune 46) under the title 'Tommy Peoples'.
# Posted on April 10th 2011 by rwwt
Oops, that should be tune 45. This is a different tune than Jackson's Bottle of Brandy / Pay the Reckoning / Bobbing for Eels.
# Posted on April 10th 2011 by rwwt