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The Silver Slipper

slip jig

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on April 24th 2008 by Dr. Dow.

This tune has been added to 49 tunebooks.

Also known as Slipear Airgid, Slipéar Airgid.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

Ceol Is Piob by TIarnan O Duinnchinn
Heathery Breeze by Matt Molloy
Live In Ennis by The Bowhouse Quintet
Local Ground by Altan
Looking For The Early Opener by Dana Lyn
Midnight May Monday by Karen Tweed And Timo Alakotila
Pierre Schryer, Dermot Byrne And Friends by Pierre Schryer, Dermot Byrne And Friends
Singing Sands by Tony McManus And Alain Genty
Stay Another While by Paul O'Shaughnessy And Frankie Lane
The Floating Bow (Traditional Fiddle Music From Donegal) by John Doherty
The High Part Of The Road by Tommy Peoples And Paul Brady
The Piper's Apron by Tommy Keane
The Pleasures Of Hope by Harry Bradley And Michael Clarkson
The Side Over by Jeremy Spencer And Sean Leahy
Trip To Fanore by Eugene Lambe

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The Silver Slipper

A hop jig from John Doherty's "The Floating Bow (Traditional Fiddle Music From Donegal)".

The phrasing of the 1st part can sound more like it's a 6/8 jig, like this:

F2D DDD|F2D DDD|F2A d2A|F2D DDD|D3 F2A|B2G E2G:|

Also recorded by Tommy Peoples on his album "The High Part of the Road":

X: 1
T: Silver Slipper, The
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: hop jig
S: Tommy Peoples
K: Dmaj
F2D DDD F2D|DDD A2F d2A|F2D DDD F2D|F2A B2G E2A:|
F2A d2D d3|F2A d2A Bcd|F2A d2c ~d3|B2G E2G G2E|
F2A d2D d3|F2A d2A Bcd|e2c d2A F2A|B2G E2G G2E||

It's also on Matt Molloy's Heathery Breeze in the following setting (first of all in 9/8 for easy comparison):

X: 1
T: Silver Slipper, The
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: hop jig
S: Matt Molloy
K: Dmaj
F2D ~D3 F2D|~D3 A2F d2A|F2D ~D3 F2D|F2A A2G E2G:|
F2A d2A ~d3|F2A d2A Bcd|F2A d2c d3|B2G E2G F2E|
F2A d2c d3|F2A d2A Bcd|e2z d2A F2A|B2G E2G F2E||

Stylistically though, Matt Molloy straightens it out so it has more of the feel of a 3/2 hornpipe, or slip polka, as I've written it here:

X: 1
T: Silver Slipper, The
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: hop jig (played as slip polka)
S: Matt Molloy
K: Dmaj
FD ~D2 FD|~D2 AF dA|FD ~D2 FD|FA AG EG:|
FA dA ~d2|FA dA B/c/d|FA dc d2|BG EG FE|
FA dc d2|FA dA B/c/d|ez dA FA|BG EG FE||

And he also emphasises that thing with the phrasing in the 1st part:

FD ~D2|FD~D2|AF dA|FD ~D2|FD FA|AG EG:|

The Woods of Fanaid http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7761 is very similar, but I'd say the Silver Slipper is better known. This tune was posted previously here at thesession.org as tune #1999. It disappeared along with the person who submitted it, so I'm reposting it so that we can cross-reference it again.

# Posted on April 24th 2008 by Dr. Dow

MMh mmh...
Two Silver Slippers in one month is not usual :-O
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/8390

# Posted on April 25th 2008 by protz

You'd look pretty daft wearing just one, two is bad enough, but it hardly ends there. Evidently 'silver slippers' used to be all the rage, don't yuh know... ;-)

# Posted on April 25th 2008 by ceolachan

Now I can't get this image out of my head, Dow in his silver slippers, with little curly points at the toe and a little silver bell hanging off, but instead of the usual hesters hat a dirty old moth eaten, oil stained, baseball cap ~ and playing his tina... YUCK!!! :-P

# Posted on April 25th 2008 by ceolachan

Dow in his jester's hat

'hesters hat' should have read ~ 'jester's hat' :-/

# Posted on April 25th 2008 by ceolachan

Boys of the Loch recorded it in the dim past

# Posted on April 25th 2008 by geoffwright

Dow in his jesters hat

Hey, 'c', I sent Dow a new baseball cap after it was noted on this site that he could be recognised by his old cap!

# Posted on April 25th 2008 by hotspur

Yes, thank you for that, hotspur. I shall treasure it always :-)

# Posted on April 25th 2008 by Dr. Dow

Hey, I never did get a picture of you in your new hat... :-(

# Posted on July 3rd 2008 by ceolachan

If he has a new hat he isnt wearing it. He is still wearing the old one with the fish on it. cute.

# Posted on July 3rd 2008 by bb

That one with the fish on it is my new one, Beebs. The old one was the same colour but it was fraying and it was 2nd hand and smelled slightly :-)

I've left it at your house. Forgot to pick it up yesterday. Remind me next time.

# Posted on July 3rd 2008 by Dr. Dow