Banish Misfortune
A Mixolydian jig. That flattened seventh gives it an open, unhurried quality. It sits in D major but the C natural keeps pulling it somewhere older.
This is the version I learned, a fairly standard setting with three parts of eight bars each.
X: 1
R: jig
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: Dmix
|:fed cAG|A2d cAG|F2D DED|FEF GFG|
AGA cAG|AGA cde|fed cAG|Ad^c d3:|
|:f2d d^cd|f2g agf|e2c cBc|e2f gfe|
f2g agf|e2f gfe|fed cAG|Ad^c d3:|
|:f2g e2f|d2e c2d|ABA GAG|F2F GED|
c3 cAG|AGA cde|fed cAG|Ad^c d3:|
The melody sits comfortably on fiddle, flute, or whistle. The Mixolydian mode (D scale with C natural rather than C sharp) gives it that characteristic neither-major-nor-minor quality that turns up often in older Irish tunes.