Bill Harte’s Jig

Aka “The Superman Theme Song.”

Well, that’s what I always think of, and my coworkers have also asked me if that’s what I was humming  when I was actually humming Bill Harte’s. It’s one of those jigs that I think comes from the piping tradition, ripe with possibilities for crazy variations and ornamentation. I would suggest playing this slowly, trying something different each time through, to try to liven up the repetitiveness.

Click HERE for some discussion on the tune.

Here are a couple good versions I found on the tube: