Lyr/Tune ADD: Bellaghy Fair / The Swaggering Jig

Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune ADD: Bellaghy Fair / The Swaggering Jig
From: GUEST
Date: 24 May 22 - 02:23 PM

"Hey to the boys Of Bellaghy , hey to the price of my pig " in Sam Henry.   PW. Joyce gives the air under title "The Price of My Pig

Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune ADD: Bellaghy Fair / The Swaggering Jig
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 May 22 - 06:47 PM

Doug requested this song in 1998, and he sang it at the Mudcat Singaround today. Did a darn good job of it.

Subject: RE: The Swaggering Jig
From: Doug Huggins
Date: 16 Oct 98 - 10:46 PM

Thanks for the quick response...I got the tune from one and the words from another...just what I was looking for.

Subject: Lyr Add: BELLAGHY FAIR / SWAGGERING JIG
From: Maelgwyn
Date: 13 Oct 98 - 12:31 PM

BELLAGHY FAIR

I went to the fair of Bellaghy. I bought a wee swag of a pig.
I gathered it up in me arms and danced the swaggering jig.
And it's high to the top of the heather, and high to the butt of the sprig,
And high to the bonny wee lassie who danced the swaggering jig.

As I went to the fair of Bellaghy, I bought a wee slip of a pig.
I being down by the poorhouse, I whistled the swaggering jig.
And it's high to the cups and the saucers, and high to the butter and bread,
And high to the bonny wee lassie who danced the swaggering jig.

I being down by the poorhouse, I whistled so loud and so shrill,
I made all the fairies to tremble that lived around Corcoran's Hill.
And it's high to the top of the heather, and high to the but of the sprig,
And high to the bonny wee lassie who danced the swaggering jig.

Subject: Tune Add: THE SWAGGERING JIG
From: Bruce O.
Date: 12 Oct 98 - 11:21 PM

I don't know the song. Below is the tune, but variant versions are known by about a half dozen different titles.

X:1
T:The Swaggering Jig
S:Complete Petrie Collection, #961
Q:120
L:1/8
M:9/8
K:A dorian
g|fed Bdd Bdd|fed Bdde2g|fed Bdd Bdd|{f/}ede fdBA2::g|\
fed faa faa|{g/}fed fafg2e|{g/}fed faa faa|gfe fdB A2:|]

Subject: The Swaggering Jig
From: Doug Huggins
Date: 12 Oct 98 - 10:36 PM

I'm looking for lyrics and tune called The Swaggering Jig, also known as the something-or-other fair. It contains lyrics about buying a wee slip of a pig at a fair, coming home by way of the poor house and whistling a tune called the Swaggering Jig. Any Help? thanks.

Doug