The Booley House

slip jig

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on April 30th 2008 by Ger the Rigger.

This tune has been added to 23 tunebooks.

Also known as Cuir Barr Air, Dress Her Out In Fine Clothes, Dress Her Up Fine, Dress Her Up In Fine Clothes, The Maid's Request, McCarty's Jig, Rouse It, Top It Off.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Bonaparte's Retreat by The Chieftains
• Cape To Clare by Various Artists
• Dísirt Tola : Traditional Music From Clare And Dublin by Various Artists
• Folktrax-173: Willie Clancy And Bobby Casey by Willie Clancy And Bobby Casey
• Glackin by Paddy Glackin
• Hidden Ground by Paddy Glackin, Jolyon Jackson
• Just As The Sun Was Setting by John Drury
• Like A Wild Thing by Céide
• Snug In The Blanket by Paddy O'Brien
• Sugach Samh/Happy Out by Niamh Ni Charra
• The Dawn by Baal Tinne
• The Drones And The Chanters by Various Artists
• The Liffey Banks by Tommy Potts
• The Road Less Traveled by Danu
• Welcome Here Again by Martin Hayes And Dennis Cahill

X: 1
T: Booley House, The
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: slip jig
K: Dmaj
A2GF2A dcA |B2 c d2 e fdB|A2GF2A dcA|BdB AFA D3|
f2 d d2 f agf|e2 d c2 e gfe|f2 d d2 f agf|efd cdB A3|
f2 d d2 f agf|e2 d c2 e gfe|d2 c B2 c dcB|efd cdB A3||

I know Top it Off is already posted (http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2608), but the version Martin Hayes plays is sufficiently different that you have to work at it to see them as the same tune. Note the A part only gets a single airing.

# Posted on April 30th 2008 by Ger the Rigger

Top It Off, In Fine Clothes?

I know it's not an exact match, but this one resembles "Dress Her Out In Fine Clothes"

X: 1
T: Dress Her Out in Fine Clothes.
C:McFadden.
B:O'Neill's Music of Ireland
N:O'Neill's - 1165
Z:Transcribed by Stephen Foy (shf@access.digex.net)
Z:abc 1.6
M:9/8
R:slipjig
F:http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/oneills/1850/F/1136-1175_sf.abc 2008-04-30 11:42:46 UT
K:D
A2 G F2 A d z A | B2 c d z e fdB | A2 G F2 A d z A | Bcd AFD D3 :|
f2 d d2 f a2 f | e2 d c z e gfe | f2 d d2 f a2 f | ecA ABc d2 g |
f2 d d2 f agf | e2 c c2 e gfe | fdf efg agf | edc ABc dcB ||

# Posted on April 30th 2008 by pbassnote

Cahill

Thanks for posting this. I think Cahill's slow waltzing guitar against the slow jig really gives the tune much more depth and beauty than it otherwise would have. What a combo.

# Posted on April 24th 2009 by kabur10

I have a copy, courtesy of the Irish Traditional Music Archives, in Dublin, of P.W. Joyce's transcription of this tune, which is a very little different from both O'Neill's, Dress Her Up In Fine Clothes, and this Booley House. He learned it from David Grady, a flute player from Ardpatrick. He neglected to "ascertain" the title. The general body of the tune is so similar to both O'Neill's, Dress Her Up In Fine Clothes, and this one, Booley House, to make me say, once again, 5,000 tunes, 150,000 names! Joyce refers to it as a hop jig, saying that it is for a particular kind of dance in the south of Ireland.

# Posted on August 29th 2010 by c.smitty

Another source

Closely similar versions of the first two parts of the tune also appear in Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883), under the confusing title "Hop — Jig".

# Posted on November 16th 2010 by rwwt