Monday 29 June 2026
Tune of the Day: Yellow Legs
Traditional Irish slip jig
The earliest appearance of this slip jig, under the title “Cusabue Ord” (probably a mangled version of the Irish “Cosa Buidhe Arda”, meaning “Long Yellow Legs”), is in O'Farrell's Pocket Companion for the Irish or Union Pipes, published in London around 1805. The tune was also notably included, as “Cogue in the Evening”, in the mid-19th-century manuscripts of collector James Goodman, who attributed it to the famous 18th-century uilleann piper Walker ‛Piper’ Jackson from County Limerick.