Sheet Music: Trip It Up Stairs

TitleTrip It Up Stairs
Alternate titlesTrip It Upstairs
Up and Down the Stairs
Puddle the Butter
ComposerTraditional Irish
InstrumentationFlute solo
KeyG major
RangeD4–B5
Time signature6/8
Tempo108 BPM
Performance time0:55
Difficulty leveleasy
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Date added2026-01-08
Last updated2026-01-08
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Categories
Jigs, Traditional/Folk

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Thursday 8 January 2026

Tune of the Day: Trip It Up Stairs

Traditional Irish jig

This jig was entered twice into the mid-19th-century music manuscript of Irish uilleann piper and cleric James Goodman, set in two different keys. Around the same time, the tune appeared in R.M. Levey's First Collection of the Dance Music of Ireland (1858).

A version for the Northumbrian small-pipes entitled “Puddle the Butter” was printed in 1913 by collector Cecil Sharp, originally from the music manuscript collection of the Crawhall family.

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