Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on January 1st 2002 by B Rad .
This tune has been added to 404 tunebooks.
Also known as An Lurgadán, Foyne's, Lurgadán, Mice In The Cupboard, The Moate Hunt , The Moate Hunt, Ollie Reilly, Sheep On The Moor, Whillie Coleman's, Whillie Colemans, Willie Coleman’s, Willy Coleman's.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Willie Coleman's
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Gmaj
B2G AGE|GED G2d|edB dgb|age dBA|
B2G AGE|GED G2d|edB dBA|BGG G3:|
~g3 edB|dgb age|~g3 edB|GBd e3|
~g3 edB|dgb age|dBd gdB|AGF G3:|
I don't know too much about this tune - it isn't played in my area although I've seen it listed in "common session tune lists". I do find this tune a good easy one for the flute/whistle. I get a good kick out of it's range & melody. Is this tune popular in anyone else's neighborhood?
# Posted on January 1st 2002 by B Rad
Willie Coleman's
This is one of my favorite jigs, Brad, learned from the playing of Kevin Burke. It also goes by the name of Mice in the Cupboard. I've tried to introduce it at our local session a number of times, but no one else seems particularly interested. Perhaps my playing detracts from the tune's natural grace, or maybe it just sounds more difficult than it actually is....
# Posted on January 2nd 2002 by Will Harmon
It gets played every week in Sydney. These days we usually follow it with The Rose In The Heather into Aaron's Key.
# Posted on September 30th 2003 by Dr. Dow
Will & Brad, try this variation of the B part with some nice twists and turns and tasty C#s:
gGg edB|dgb age|fgg fdA|BGG Bdf|egg ed^c|dgb age|~d3 gdB|AGF G2
# Posted on September 30th 2003 by Dr. Dow
Willie Coleman's (jig) variation of the B part.
I use to play this variation in the B part, second time.
|~g3 edB|dgb age|~b3 age|dBd e2d|
|~g3 edB|dgb age|dBd gdB|AGF G3|
# Posted on September 30th 2003 by gian marco
Appears on Chris Droney's "Flowing Tide" as "The Moate Hunt" (track 10, second tune)
# Posted on February 28th 2008 by Jeeves Tones
Sligo flute player, Sonny McDonough (RIP) told me he was sitting next to his good friend, Martin Wynne, at Willy Coleman's funeral when they unveiled the tombstone with Willy Coleman's jig engraved on it. He told me that Martin leaned over to Sonny and quietly said, "I wrote that tune actually."
# Posted on June 12th 2008 by Phantom Button
That sounds like a joke.
# Posted on August 24th 2008 by slainte
"Willie Coleman's Jig" ~ Bulmer & Sharpley, 1974
"Music from Ireland, Volume 1"
Dave Bulmer & Neil Sharpley
Page22, tune #59
X: 2
T: Willie Coleman's
B: Bulmer & Sharpley, "Music from Ireland, Volume 1"
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Gmaj
|: A |\
B2 G AGE | GED GBd | edB dgb | age dBA |
B2 G AGE | GED GBd | edB dBA | BGF G2 :|
|: d |\
gfg edB | dgb ag| gfg edB | GBd e2 f |
gfg edB | dgb age | d^cd gdB | AGF G2 :|
# Posted on March 4th 2010 by ceolachan
C: Martin Wynn
Willie Coleman was a fiddler from Kilavil, County Sligo, called Coleman Country as it was also the birthplace of the famous fiddler Michael Coleman. Willie was a member of the Glenview Ceili Band with local musicians Peter Horan, Fred Finn and Dick Brennan, among others. A story is told that at Coleman’s funeral fiddler Martin Wynne was in attendance, standing next to Sligo musician Sonny McDonagh when they unveiled Coleman’s headstone with “Willie Coleman’s Jig” on it. Wynne leaned over to Sonny and whispered, “I actually wrote that tune.”
The Fiddler's Companion ~ Andrew Kuntz
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/WIA_WIM.htm#WILLIE_COLEMAN'S_JIG
# Posted on March 4th 2010 by ceolachan
That sounds like bull!
# Posted on March 4th 2010 by slainte
As I understand it, Willie wasn't the 'composer' of this jig, but the one it honours. Maybe it is bull, but if you have another source, please offer it... It would be more constructive to do that than just to slander the information given...
# Posted on March 4th 2010 by ceolachan
C: Martin Wynn ~ ?
I did forget the question mark...
# Posted on March 4th 2010 by ceolachan
Sorry, I'm just joking. But telling bull is part of Irish culture, and you can't trust the story without any other piece of evidence from difference sources.
# Posted on March 5th 2010 by slainte
"bull", with regards to a headstone transcription ~ pretty unlikely...
# Posted on March 19th 2010 by ceolachan
~ at a funeral... It would take balls to lie about having composed the tune. But however you see it or choose to believe, it's a good tune that has travelled well.
# Posted on March 19th 2010 by ceolachan
Deirdre Connolly
I just downloaded a nice version of Willie Coleman's (/Foyne's Jig) from her recording, "A Song in Turn."
# Posted on June 17th 2010 by Susannah
Matt Molloy's take on it
Matt Malloy originally recorded this tune in 1984 on his self titled album. He provides a story as to the origin of this tune on the record below where he said Willie Clancy had sent it to him on a tape, claiming to have written it. He asked him to name it, to which Matt named it Willie Clancy's.
Matt Molloy, John Carty & Arty McGlynn: Live, Ulster Folk & Transport Museum
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/3460
Martin could well have written it of course but it does just sound like a wonderful joke especially seeing it engraved on the headstone.
# Posted on December 26th 2011 by greg@enmore
Rubbish....
To begin with, Matt Molloy's [ not "Malloy" ] "self-titled album" was released in 1976. not 1984. I no longer have the LP record, but in the insert to the "Matt Molloy" CD release, it states clearly that " Matt got this first jig - [ ie - "Willie Coleman's" - 1st tune on track 6 ] - from Willie Coleman who is a fiddle player from Carnaree, Co. Sligo".
I don't have the recording to which you refer to above, but the insert notes to "Pathway To The Well" have the following to say about "Willie Coleman's" jig. "Willie Coleman, a well-loved fiddle player from Carnaree Co. Sligo composed this jig. He was a great source of tunes for a young Matt Molloy who was given the honour of titling this jig and after careful deliberation, came up with "Willie Coleman's". [ Track 12 ].
I find this surprising, as "Willie Coleman's" jig was recorded 4 years before the Molloy solo album was recorded, by the players of "The Coleman Country Traditional Music Society"
[ or something similar - can't recall the exact title ]. I suppose it is possible that Matt Molloy named it "Willie Coleman's" before that recording was made.
# Posted on December 26th 2011 by Kenny