Tuesday 5 October 2021
Tune of the Day: Contentment is Wealth
Traditional Irish jig
The first known appearance of this jig in print is found in Francis O'Neill's celebrated collection Music of Ireland, published in Chicago in 1903. “Contentment is Wealth” is a title shared by several jigs, all of which have the first strain in common. Scholar Bruce Olson believed it may have derived from a line in the song “Haste to the wedding”, which goes:
We boast of no wealth, but contentment and health