Lark in the Morning

One of the most commonly played four-part jigs at sessions, this tune in D wore several titles before "Lark in the Morning" stuck — a name that only settled among most fiddlers in the second half of the twentieth century, its currency owing largely to the 1926 recording by Sligo-born New York fiddler James Morrison. The title is shared by more than one jig: the setting Francis O'Neill printed under it is now usually known as "Trip to Sligo," a different tune. Fairport Convention put it at the head of an instrumental medley on Liege & Lief (1969), in Dave Swarbrick's arrangement that runs on through Rakish Paddy, Foxhunter's Jig and Toss the Feathers.