joshua green - the butterfly/rights of man (mandolin)

Here are two of my favourite tunes. I think these tunes are Irish and English, respectively. We will find out the truth below! The Butterfly is a slip jig, which is definitely my favourite "type" of tune.
Honestly, listening to this it sounds like I was really rushing through the tunes for no reason. I think 'The Butterfly' sounds best played somewhat slowly. Maybe I'll do a nicer one someday. I learned 'The Butterfly' on harp, too. Maybe I will put a nice, slow, zither/harp version of it up.

ibiblio.org fiddler's companion info:
BUTTERFLY [3], THE. AKA and see Óró, a Thaidhg, a Ghrá, "Skin the Peeler(s)." Irish, Slip Jig. E Minor/Dorian. Standard tuning. AABBCC. Composition of the The Butterfly is credited to the late fiddler Tommy Potts, who knew the first two parts of the tune from his father, Sean, an Uilleann piper (the two-part tune appears in Coles 1000 as Skin the Peeler and Barneys Goat).

RIGHTS OF MAN (Ceart Na Cine Daona). Irish, Scottish, English; Hornpipe. E Aeolian (Em) {most settings}: D Minor {Williamson}. Standard tuning. AB (S. Johnson, Moylan): AABB (most settings): AABB (Cranford, Kerr, OMalley). Williamson (1976) says the tune was popular in both Scotland and Ireland, though Hunter (1979) believes it was Irish in origin. The Northumbrian composer and fiddler James Hill (who was born in Scotland) is sometimes credited as having composed the tune, apparently on the strength of one assignation to him in an older collection; it remains doubtful he is the author. Tom Paine's (1737-1809) book, The Rights of Man, was written to refute Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, and sold a phenomenal (for the time) 200,000 copies in England while causing a furor for its support of the revolution.

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• irish
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• english
• scottish
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• jig

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