Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on May 16th 2003 by pchaffee.
This tune has been added to 44 tunebooks.
Also known as Danny Meehan's, Jackson's No. 2, Jackson's No2, La Cosa Mulligan, Over The Isles To America.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Jackson's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
|:F|D2FD EDFE| DEFD EA, ~A,2|CE ~E2 GABd| ceAc dBAF|
D2FD EDFE| DEFD EFG2| Ac ~c2 dBAG| F/2G/2F EG FDD:|
|:g|fd d2 ~d3f| e/2f/2e ^de fe=dB|A2cA BAcB| ABcA Bcde|
fd d2 ~d3f| e/2f/2e ^de fe=dB|ABde faea|1fd d2 ~d3:|2fddc d/2d/2c dB||
A3A B2AG| FAAF G/2F/2E F/2E/2D| ~E3F GFEG| Agec dBAF|
D2FD EDFE| DEFD EFG2| Ac ~c2 dBAG| FdEd DEFE|
This setting is more or less taken from Frankie Gavin's playing on his album with Alec Finn, c. 1977.
Some notes:
- the odd structure (C part only half as long as the other parts) is something I see in a lot of Northern tunes.
- I'm totally unclear on whether Tommy Peoples wrote this tune. I think he says he did, but he doesn't call it "Jackson's." I'm really confused about this because I asked him about it once and he was fairly reticent about it (big surprise), and whether the setting here is what he wrote. Oh well...
- Frankie Gavin and Mairead (from Altan) both use their fourth finger to play a D drone (on the G string) during the entire first bar and a half. Gives it a special drive. You'll encounter Northern players doing this on other tunes. (When I tried to add the drone in my ABC program it got confused so I left it out.)
If anyone has some good information about the source of this tune, please post it.
# Posted on May 16th 2003 by pchaffee
i've been trying to learn this myself of late as it's a great tune.there's some differences between gavin's and peoples' settings,and frankie's variations are another thing.
but,there's also a version of this on 'the brass fiddle' played by vincent campbell.the sleevenotes say that (according to vincent) this reel was introduced into donegal by the musical fitzgerald family from co. mayo.
either way,this is a tune to lift your spirits.
# Posted on May 17th 2003 by biggus dave
Aargh!
sorry,pchaffee,please ignore my above post - the jackson's you posted is n't the one to which i was talking about at all.(i meant the 2nd jackson's from the frankie gavin set) and yours is the 1st tune - my dodgy abc perception set me off on the wrong track.i'm afraid i can't help you out on this tune after all.
yours,in sackcloth and ashes etc...
# Posted on May 17th 2003 by biggus dave
Thanks
...to both of you (bigvioladave and celiog) for your posts.
Ceilog: Can you tell if La Cosa Mulligan is the tune I posted? Thanks...
# Posted on May 18th 2003 by pchaffee
Shoot
Thanks again. It is a great tune. Now i feel bad that
1) I posted the setting played by FG when in fact we have a recorded version of TP playing his own composition and
2) I contributed to the propagation of the incorrect tune name.
May the muses of ITM forgive me...
# Posted on May 19th 2003 by pchaffee
Incidentally Danny Meehan recorded this tune as a solo on Le Cheile's LP, "Lord Mayo". He called it "Over the Isles to America" - I wonder if that's what TP originally called it before he started saluting record companies.
# Posted on January 5th 2007 by Jeeves Tones
As a jig
I've arranged this reel as a jig in D minor, you can find it here; http://malcolm.schonfield.free.fr/zik.php?tune=jacksons&lang=en.
# Posted on February 16th 2009 by GoPlayer
La Cosa Mulligan
By Tara Breen, Cathal King and Noel Ryan. It's the second tune at about 1.10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Urwz6EMJkc&feature=rec-fresh+div
# Posted on October 11th 2009 by conscientious objector