The Tenpenny Bit

George Petrie printed this jig as "The New Tenpenny." In the Sliabh Luachra region of Cork and Kerry it is sometimes called "The Ducks and the Oats," and Nova Scotia fiddler James Barry copied it into his big 19th century manuscript.

Sligo fiddler Paddy Killoran recorded it in New York in 1934, paired with "The Scotsman over the Border," and later players like Brian Conway learned it from that 78. In England it is one of the tunes used for rapper sword dancing.