Paddy Canny’s

Beneath the name lies one of Irish music's well-travelled jigs — old enough to sit in O'Neill's 1907 "Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems" (No. 987) as "Billy O'Rourke's the Buachaill," and in the mid-19th-century Goodman manuscripts before that. O'Neill prints it as both air and jig, and the melody did double as a song — it turns up as an air in Surenne's "Songs of Ireland" (1854) — which is why it surfaces under a tangle of titles across collectors and regions. "Paddy Canny's" is the name it carries in the East Clare tradition, after the Feakle fiddler of that name. P.J. and Martin Hayes recorded it on "The Shores of Lough Graney," and The Gloaming later took it up in B minor.