Key signature: Adorian
Submitted on October 24th 2002 by Mad Baloney.
This tune has been added to 156 tunebooks.
Also known as An Rógaire Dubh, An Rogaire Dubh, Billy O'Rourke, Black Rogue, Paddy McNicholas, Paddy McNicholas', Paddy McNicholas's, Paddy's Own, Rógaire Dubh, Rogaire Dubh, The Sack Of Potatoes, Sail Round The Rocks By Todd Denman, Sweet Tibbie Dunbar.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Black Rogue, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Ador
| cAA BGG | cAA ABd | cAA BAG | AFD D2 B|
cAA BGG | cAA AFD | G2 A (B/c/d)B |1 AFD D2 B :|2 AFD D3 ||
|: ~f3 ~g3 | afd cBA| ~f3 gfg | afd dfg |
agf gfe | fed e/f/ed | cBA BAG | AFD D3 :||
Black Rogue
I didn't think too much about this tune when I first heard it, but I've been giving it a go on the fute & like it quite a bit now. I don't know a lot about it, maybe someone else here can flesh out some details on it.
# Posted on October 24th 2002 by Mad Baloney
Black Rogue
I think this jig is in one of Bulmer & Sharpley's books as "Paddy McNicholas", but I'm sure "the Black Rogue" is the older name for it.
The Dubliners used to play this on stage as "The Octopus Jig",
with Barney picking the banjo and "fingering "the fiddle, John Sheehan bowing the fiddle, and "fingering" the banjo, and blowing the whistle, Ciaran(?) fingering the whistle, and Ronnie feeding Barney a bottle of Guiness !!
As long as they all started together it worked - I saw them do it on TV.
A great jig - real lift!
# Posted on October 24th 2002 by Kenny
It ios sometimes playrd with C# throughout, in place of C-natural. Also, I think, with C-natural in the A-part and C# in the B-part.
# Posted on October 25th 2002 by granama
Black Rogue
now that you've pointed it out - I like doing a C# in the 2nd part. That stuff the Dubliners did sounds like a real stunt, those guys really knew how to have fun.
# Posted on October 25th 2002 by Mad Baloney
Black Rogue
What ever the name, the structure and style of this jig shows it to be a very old pipe tune. It certainly predates most of the reelsand hornpipes posted on this site.I suspect it also predates many of the jigs. On stylisticgroundsalone,I wouldsuggest that it originates sometime in the 18th century.It would be interestingto seeifanyonecan find any evidence to support this assertion.
# Posted on October 27th 2002 by noelbats
Black ROGUE
Sung in Connemara as an Rogaire Dubh along with Paidin O Rafferty . Very old I think.
# Posted on January 31st 2003 by cruiser
The piper and the pooka
see http://irelandsown.net/piper.html
In this nice story there is a piper. He plays very nice but is able only to play the black rogue.
One night half drunk he is hijacked by a pooka which tells him to play the 'Shan Van Vocht'.
After a gig for some fairies he is able to play all the tunes and he is the king of the piper for the rest of his live
In the process of oral tradition some musically wise guys must have been involved.
The Black Rogue might be a very old warpipe tune and has a lot of march charactristics (see O'Neills version).
On the wind instruments at least it's an easy to play tune.
The 'Shan vanVocht' is a hornpipe and so a releatively modern tune, it's much more difficult tp lay and can be a master piece for a great piper.
My question is: When I'm half drunk, at which bridge can I expect a pooka to give me a lift to the fairies so I know after one night all the tunes and I'm called the bsest piper??
# Posted on April 2nd 2003 by swisspiper
All C#s
This tune is always played with C#s throughout, not C naturals--at least by today's players. That makes it basically the key of D, but an A chord in the first and third bars.
# Posted on April 16th 2003 by pchaffee
C#
Yes, in our Ceili band we play this tune with C# throughout
# Posted on November 17th 2003 by Oranaiche
Black Rogue
The black rogue was driving me crazy since I knew I have it somewhere in my CD collection. It is part of a set that Todd Denman plays on his Celtic Peace album, Sailing around the rocks, last piece in the set. Its all jazzed up with a bunch of tight triplets but basically its the same tune
# Posted on April 19th 2004 by I_Fel
The Octopus Jig
Now we all have the chance to see the Dubliners' stunt!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcA3MmV6Ymk
# Posted on February 16th 2007 by DuncanCameron
The Black Rogue
This is the version on the Ted Furey album 'Toss the Feathers' (Outlet 1973). He introduces the set as "The Black Rogue and Donnybrook Jig"; however, the tunes are the other way around.
X: 1
T: Donnybrook
T: The Black Rogue
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmix
d/B/ | c2A BAG | cAA AdB | c2A BAG | AFD DdB |
c2A BAG | cAA BAG | FGA BAG | AFD D2 :|
e | fef gfg | afd cBA | fef gfg | afd efg |
agf gfe | efd {ef}e2d | cAA BAG | AFD D2 :|
# Posted on April 9th 2007 by nigelg