Tobin's Favourite

Adam Tobin was a Kilkenny man in Chicago, a piper and fiddler who played for Scottish society picnics year after year. Francis O'Neill wrote that he was good company but quick to bristle when crossed. Chicago fiddler James Kennedy passed this jig on to O'Neill, who printed it in 1903 and again in 1907 under Tobin's name.

Sligo fiddler Michael Coleman recorded it in New York in 1927 as "Tobin's Fancy," and another 1927 record calls it "Follow Me Around the Garden." It is a common jig in sessions and at contra dances, often called simply "Tobin's."