- Style
- Celtic
- Tradition
- Irish
- Form
- Jig
- Key
- G
- Level
- 3
- Played on
- Fiddle
In the public domain. Source
Music
100bpm
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Chord chart
History
Blackthorn is a thorny hedge shrub with very hard, knotty wood, and it is the usual wood for walking sticks and modern shillelaghs. Irish folklore links it with the fairies, who are said to gather under it, and anyone who cuts one down risks angering them.
Samuel Bayard called this a thoroughly typical Irish jig, probably not very old. It travelled well beyond Ireland, and in England it is one of the tunes used for rapper sword dancing, along with "The Tenpenny Bit" and "The Connaughtman's Rambles." P. W. Joyce printed a version as an untitled air in 1909.