The Session: Tunes - Jump At The Sun (jig)

As played by the people of Carp Camp at the Walnut Valley Festival (a.k.a. Winfield)

Brent

# Posted on June 5th 2002 by kardshark87

Written by John Kirkpatrick.

I know a slightly different setting, as follies.

K: Dmin
|:DFA ^G2 A|DFA ^G2 A|dAA dAA|AGF E2 F|
|DFA ^G2 A|DFA ^G2 A|dAA BAG|1 FGE D2 E:|
|2 FGE D2 A|
|:dAA fed|eAA gfe|fed fed|ecA {c}B2 A|
|dAA fed|eAA gfe|dAA BAG|1 FGE D2 A:|
|2 FGE D2 E|

# Posted on June 6th 2002 by Will CPT

C: field

Hiya Brent--another fun tune! And please don't forget to put the composer in ABC's C: field to make sure someone doesn't end up calling it "trad."

Marguerite

# Posted on June 8th 2002 by mvhplank

Composer credit

That's what these comments are for - giving information like the composer of a tune (where applicable).

When submitting a tune, there is no option for adding a "C:" field. It's not that I don't want people to credit tunes but that I want them to do it here in the comments section in fully formed sentences.

Will has already pointed out above that this tune is written by John Kirkpatrick.

# Posted on June 9th 2002 by Jeremy

Another Name?

I heard a funny story last night about this tune. I learned this from my brother in the UK but a couple of people here in Quebec learned the tune from a festival in France. For over a year they knew the tune as John Patterson. You try saying Jump At The Sun with a French accent!

Robin

# Posted on February 22nd 2004 by lildogturpy

We play this in Gmin with Crabs in the Skillet. Didn't realize it wasn't trad!!

# Posted on April 5th 2004 by Trinil

Jump in Gminor

Could you post the tune in g minor? Thanks.

# Posted on April 30th 2004 by dulcie22

Key change

Here's the setting that I play:

K: Gmin
GBd ^c2d|GBd ^c2d|gdd gdd|dcB A3|GBd ^c2d|GBd ^c2 d|gdd edc|BcA G3:||
g2g bag|add c'ba|bag bag|add e2d|g2g bag|add c'ba|gdd edc|BcA G3:||

Cheers!

# Posted on April 30th 2004 by Trinil

Another Key

I've been learning this in Dm (original?)and have just found that our local session tends to play it in Em (apparently easier for G/D melodeons!)

Bother - I'd better try and learn it again in another key (or 2) - not a direct shift on a concertina (english)

# Posted on July 22nd 2004 by spindizzy

Local color

This is one of the over-played tunes in my group of friends, but we've messed with it and written a mafor version. I don't have the music as no one has written it up, but it sounds quite amusing.
Some of my friends have played this in a set with The Wizard's Walk.

# Posted on August 21st 2005 by irishimp

Yet another key

I think this makes it easier (possible?) for melodians to play.

# Posted on September 30th 2005 by barrysmith90

Fairies on acid

i know this as jump to the sun< but fairies on acid is the best name i have come across lol

# Posted on November 18th 2006 by henry_oh

barrysmith80
Edorian with the C# does not sound so great, I think it should be Eminor with Cnat

# Posted on December 7th 2006 by swisspiper

Another version?!?

# Posted on January 10th 2007 by bodhran guy

"The South of France" ~ bodhran guy's submission & comments

I suspect Jeremy will eventually find the duplication, so here are the comments that followed the above transcription, 'bodhran guy' first:

I learned it in this key (e minor) under that name ("The South of France")...

# Posted on January 9th 2007 by bodhran guy
http://www.thesession.org/members/display/30244

It certainly looks and sounds like "Jump at the Sun", which I learned myself from someone that had spent time in the South of France.

I now live in the Pyrenees, and if you can find that on the map, just look for the South of the country. This tune is described by one local medieval band as "traditionnal", and as a "Circadian Circle".

Mind though, I came across a recording of Carolan's "Fanny Powers'" by a local folklorist here in the mountains. This tune was also described as locally traditional.

I'd have to look into it when I got a few minutes to rub together.

# Posted on January 10th 2007 by Fanning
http://www.thesession.org/members/display/25870

It's not trad. "Jump At the Sun" was penned by John Kirkpatrick, accordion and concertina player from England.

# Posted on January 10th 2007 by will harmon
http://www.thesession.org/members/display/58

# Posted on January 10th 2007 by ceolachan

"Jump at the Sun" / "The South of France" ~ just a matter of octaves

Here is 'bodhran guy's' transcription again, correcting the C to c and raising some notes from the second part up an octave, but since it is a repeat, giving some variation on the tune as well:

# Posted on January 10th 2007 by ceolachan

"Jump at the Sun" ~ by John Kirkpatrick

Well, now, with all that above and the various bits and opportunities, here it is again, but back in d minor, using those various options, like the octave drop 'bodhran guy' has, and other fancies, twice through ~ ;-) :

& that last take on the B-part raised an octave:

# Posted on January 10th 2007 by ceolachan

I like the story of Planxty Fanny Powers (Power? Poer?) embedding itself as a traditional Pyrenean tune. But why not? However far they extend musical copyright, Carolan - R.I.P. - is now well outside it.

# Posted on January 10th 2007 by nicholas

Jump at the sun

just discovered this tune thanks to jeremy and kardshark87. really like it but the F ending the fourth bar just HAS to be an E !! ............most of the fairies around here are rather traditional and tend to stick to fly agarics and magic mushrooms
but from my own recent experiences in the pyrennees I wouldnt be at all surprised to see them dancing through lysergic landscapes
to that old local tune Le Roi Des Fees!

# Posted on February 24th 2007 by Teshake

Keys...

I play this in E (I think.. I starts on an E) so It segues nicely with Dribbles of Brandy and (i think..) Herbet the Sherbet

# Posted on October 24th 2007 by nicbarber

"The Spy" / "Jump at the Sun" ~ C: John Kirkpatrick ~ rescued duplication

Key signature: e minor
Submitted on January 18th 2008 by jig.
~ /tunes/display/8158

Heard this one around sessions in Cork 2000., Know no more than that really, I think its pretty much as I picked it up by ear, but...

Great little tune, always raises a smile! Not sure of its provenance, anyone know a bit more?

My first attempt at ABC with a little help and correction from a friend.

# Posted on January 18th 2008 by jig

Further 'Comments':

The first phrase sounds like part of a TV show theme song... Fun tune though

# Posted on January 18th 2008 by JosephofCK

# Posted on January 18th 2008 by ceolachan

"Jump at the Sun" ~ Cymru / England / Scotland / Ireland / Brittany / France

C: John Kirkpatrick

I was again reacquainted with this jig and was smiling the whole time, remembering the various places I've stumbled across it. It got spread in Cymru, but with John Kirkpatrick there on the Welsh Borders it's not a surprise. It gets airplay for the Welsh equivalent of the ceilidh, the twmpath dawns. I remember stumbling across it in Brittany too, including Lorient. It also gets regular play across North America, Canada & the U.S.A., where John Kirkpatrick has done some touring, and especially for the dance from called contra dancing which particularly favours 32 bar tunes...

I suspected, such a spread in part accounts for the different names and keys. I have both played it for dance and danced to it, and we used to sometimes do some crazy stuff in accompaniment to bars 1 & 2, 5 & 6...

# Posted on January 18th 2008 by ceolachan

correction ~ dance 'from' ~ dance 'form'

# Posted on January 18th 2008 by ceolachan

"Jump at the Sun" ~ John Kirkpatrick ~ revisiting previous transcriptions

The following is to aid comparison, with minor adjustments, a few missing bits and the removal of chords, one {c} and one ~, while adding lead-ins where suitable, and one ^c :

# Posted on June 6th 2002 by Will CPT

# Posted on April 30th 2004 by Trinil

# Posted on September 30th 2005 by barrysmith90

# Posted on January 10th 2007 by bodhran guy

# Posted on January 18th 2008 by ceolachan

Also...

Here's The Celtic Spring setting of this one.... (bare bones, though)

Check out another post on this one...
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/8158

# Posted on January 20th 2008 by Jeffery

I first heard "Jump At The Sun" at an Irish Session in Wichita, Kansas about ten years ago. Five years ago, one of the flute players at the local session heard this tune at the Folk Festival in Winfield, Kansas and liked it so much that she learned it and started playing it at the local session.

# Posted on June 24th 2008 by fauxcelt

Chords for Jump at the Sun

Anyone got a set of chords for this tune?

# Posted on June 30th 2008 by Rhlloydbgf

One set of chords for Jump at the Sun

From barrysmiths90's setting above, the chords would be:

||: Em | Em | Em | Em B | E | E | E Am | B7 Em :||
||: Em | B7 | Em | B B7 | Em | B7 | Em Am | B7 Em :||

I think I have a slightly different batch. Will post it when I can confirm that.

It was written earlier, but that's when it was copyrighted.

Cheers!
Sarah

# Posted on July 23rd 2008 by anniemcu