Tripping up the Stairs

Tripping up the Stairs is a double jig in D and a long-standing session staple, old enough to have been circulating among Irish musicians in America by the early twentieth century: the New York accordion and fiddle player Frank Quinn recorded it there in 1921. It goes under a tangle of alternate titles, from "The Pride of Kildare" to "Sacho's," and a setting on De Dannan's 1975 debut album helped fix it in the modern repertoire; Joe Burke and Matt Cranitch are among the many who have recorded it since.