(from some traditional verses & ‘Ecstasy in Eighteenth Century Kildare ’ by Sean Donnelly [see C.S. 14.2] edited and gaps filled by Donald Lindsay, Aug. 2001)

Jackie was a bonny lad,

A lad wha liked the gamblin’, Wager’d that he’d dance him hame, Tae Morristown, frae Dublin

Step it, Jackie, set it Jackie Step it Jackie Latin

Twenty miles, in twenty styles Tae Morristown, frae Dublin

Bonny Jackie, Braw Jackie,

• [traditional lines : Northumbrian] Bonny Jackie Latin,
• [traditional lines : Northumbrian] Wager’d that he’d dance him hame, Tae Morristown, frae Dublin
• - - (to start of tune again)

Jackie was a fiddler fine, He fairly liked the dancing,

A’ the night, at Jack MacLean’s,

(Jack Mackleans : ‘The Conniving House’) Wi pipin’ Larry Grogan

• (Laurence Grogan : 1701 - 1729)

Step it, Jackie, set it Jackie Step it Jackie Latin

Twenty miles, in twenty styles Tae Morristown, frae Dublin

Bonny Jackie, Braw Jackie,

• [traditional lines : Northumbrian] Bonny Jackie Latin,
• traditional lines : Northumbrian] Struck up wi his fiddle,

An’ he danced a rincky fada

[rincky fada : long distance Irish dance]

• - - (to start of tune again) Jackie was but twenty years,

- [Jack Lattin : 1711 - 1731?] An’ he was fit an’ handsome, But three days after he got hame, They laid him in his coffin

Step it, Jackie, set it Jackie Step it Jackie Latin

Twenty miles, in twenty styles Tae Morristown, frae Dublin

Jackie Latin, dress’d in satin

• [traditional lines : Lattin Family] Broke his heart of dancing
• traditional lines : Lattin Family] Three days after he got hame, Tae Morristown, frae Dublin

When singing the melody the runs of four [semi] quavers should be simplified to two quavers, hence the first run A-B-C-D which goes with the word ‘Jac-kie’ should simply be A-C so it fits the words. Elspeth Cowie makes this modification when using the tune to sing ‘Gat Ye Me wi Naethin’ on the Linn Burns Series, and it’s the proper way to treat pipe tunes when using them to sing words to as Scottish Traditional singing usually tries to avoid having too many ‘notes-per-syllable’.

[Tune taken from Peacock’s ‘Jackey Layton’- Ed ]

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