Will You Come Down to Limerick? (Slip Jig)
Posted in Slip jigs on Jun 30th, 2011 No Comments »
(fig 1. Gimlets: Size isn't everything)
This is one of my favourite tunes that Willie Clancy played. It was also recorded under the title 'The Munster Gimlet' by Patsy Touhey which resonates with a verse that Clancy had to the tune:
Kitty come down, come down,
Kitty come down to Limerick.
I knew by the glint in her eye
That she wanted a touch of the gimlet!
A gimlet is a hand tool for manually boring into wood. In the spirit of the last post (I swear, Dr. Freud, that this dubious connection was not intentional!) I'll leave you to make any lewd poetic connections as your disposition dictates.
Regards,
Harry.
