Jenny Picking Cockles

reel

Key signature: Gdorian

Submitted on July 18th 2001 by martin t.

This tune has been added to 111 tunebooks.

Also known as Jenny Picking Cockels, Jenny's Picking Cockles.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

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• Eleven by Troy MacGillivray
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• In Full Spate by Paddy Glackin
• Irish Dance Music - Folkways LP by Various Artists
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• Live In Concert by Brid Harper And Dermot Byrne
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• The Cobblestone Sessions by Various Artists
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• The South West Wind by Ronan Browne And Peter O'Loughlin
• Throw Away The Keys by Brian Mac Aodha
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• Traditional Irish Music From London by John Blake, Lamond Gillespie And Mick Leahy
• Traditional Irish Music Played On The Uilleann Pipes by Robbie Hannan
• Up Against The Flatirons by Eliot Grasso
• Wherever You Go by Wild Asparagus

X: 1
T: Jenny Picking Cockles
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gdor
=fagf dc~c2|Bcde =fefa|g2=fg dc~c2|Ac=fc AG~G2|
g2g=f dc~c2|Bcde =fefa|g2=fg dc~c2|Ac=fc AG~G2||
dgga bgag|^fdde fdcA|dgga bgag|^fdcA AG~G2|
dgga b2ag|^f2ga fdga|bgag ^fdeg|^fdcA AG~G2||

Recorded by Patrick Street

On " Compendium " -Best of album

# Posted on June 17th 2002 by Celtic1234

Different Setting

This is a different setting of the tune than I've usually heard. I've more often heard it played like this

X: 1
T:Jenny Picking Cockles
M:C|
L:1/8
R:Reel
K:DMix
Addc AGEF | GEcE dEcE | Addc AGEF | GEcE ED D2 |
Addc AGEF | (3GGG AB cBcA | ecdB cABG | GEcE ED D2 :||
~f3d efed | ^cA(3AAA cAGA | ~f3d eA (3B^cd | e2ag ed d2 |
fd(3ddd efed | ^cAAB ~=c3d | e=cdB cABG | GE=cE ED D2 :||

due to a lot of flip-flopping between DMix & DMajor in the B-part. I've just used accidentals instead of writing it out in ABC (which would make it very difficult to read).

Martin is your setting how they do it up North?

Brad

# Posted on July 7th 2002 by Brad Maloney

Jenny Picking Cockles

This transcription has been given the wrong key sig. It shouldn't have B flats. This is why I complain about people cutting & pasting direct from Henrik Norbeck's tune index (where the correct version is, by the way). You're simply lifting the transcription with complete disregard for - and lack of understanding of - it's content. Shame cuz it's such a great tune.

X: 1
T: Jenny Picking Cockles
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmix
fagf dc~c2|Bcde f2fa|g2fg dc~c2|Acfc AGG^F|
Gg~g2 dc~c2|Bcde f2fa|g2fg dc~c2|Acfc AGG^F||
K: Gmaj
Gg~g2 bgag|fd~d2 fdcA|dgga bgag|fdcA AGGB|
dgga bgag|f2ga fdga|bgaf gbag|fdcA G2g2||

# Posted on May 21st 2005 by Dow

That was from Altan's Blackwater.

# Posted on May 21st 2005 by Dow

Sorry those first Fs should have been # - try again with header this time:

X: 1
T: Jenny Picking Cockles
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
S: Altan: Blackwater
R: reel
K: Gmix
^fagf dc~c2|Bcde f2fa|g2fg dc~c2|Acfc AGG^F|
Gg~g2 dc~c2|Bcde f2fa|g2fg dc~c2|Acfc AGG^F||
K: Gmaj
Gg~g2 bgag|fd~d2 fdcA|dgga bgag|fdcA AGGB|
dgga bgag|f2ga fdga|bgaf gbag|fdcA G2g2||

# Posted on May 21st 2005 by Dow

Turns out those Fs are nats 3rd and last time thru. Sounds good both ways.

# Posted on May 21st 2005 by Dow

Here's a transcription from Larry Sanger's site that comes from a Neillidh Boyle 78:

X:4
T:Jenny Picking Cockles
R:reel
C:Traditional
S:Neillidh Boyle
A:Dungloe, Co. Donegal, Ireland
Z:Transcribed by Larry Sanger from a tape of the old 78 rpm record of N. Boyle.
M:C|
K:C
~g2||fagf dc~c2|Bcde {a}fe{a}+A2.f2+|~g2fg dc~c2|Acfc AG~G2|[G,G]B~g2
dc~c2|Bcde {a}fe{a}[A2.f2]|~g2fg dc~c2|Acfc AG~G2|[G,G]B~g2 dc~c2|Bcde
{a}fe{a}[A2.f2]|~g2fg dc~c2|Acfc AG~G2|[G,G]B~g2 dc~c2|Bcde
{a}fe{a}[A2.f2]|~g2fg dc~c2|Acfc AG~G2||:\
K:G
|:dg~g2 bgag|fd~d2 [df]d[dg][df]|[d2g2][dg][df] gbag|fdcd BG~G2|dg~g2
bgag|~f2ga fddg|bg~a2 gfga|fdcA [G,G]B~g2:|

# Posted on September 12th 2008 by mutatis mutandis