This is the Dadgad version of the traditional tune: Uisge Beata Is Tu an Diabal! also known as: "Gypsy Hornpipe (4)," "Off to California (1)," "Going to California," "Fireman's Reel," "Possum Up a Gum Stump," "Lexington," "Old Towser," "Whiskey in the Jar (1)," "Buttermilk and Cider." Irish, Hornpipe. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The first strain is shared with the popular "Going to California/Off to California (1)" tune family. However, both strains of "Whiskey You're the Devil" are also played under the title "Portsmouth Hornpipe (1).

DADGAD was: 
- Dario Piccarreta (Guitars)  https://soundcloud.com/dario-piccarreta
- Massimo Cerra (Oboe & Recorder)https://soundcloud.com/massimocerra
- me (Northumbrian smallpipes)

The Dadgad's Version

Whiskey you're the devil

This is the Dadgad version of Jackie Layton.
Another tune in which the provenance is debatable and which is popular throughout the British Isles as a bagpipe and fiddle tune.
There have been several stories extent about the origins of the tune and regarding the personage of Jacky Lattin, some of which are quite erroneous. A correspondent of Captain Francis O'Neill's, one Patrick O'Leary of Drumlona, Eastwood, Adelaide, South Australia, claimed the melody was Irish in origin and related this story from County Monaghan:

This fine old reel is said to have been composed in honor of a young man, John Duffy--better known as 'Jack' Duffy--who lived in the townland of Lattan, near (Walter 'Piper') Jackson's home in the parish of Aughnamulien. Duffy being a fine, strapping young man, a local Adonis, and an incomparable dancer in those days when dancing was a fine art in Ireland, he won Jackson's friendship and esteem to such a degree, that the great composer immortalized him in the beautiful tune, 'Jack o' Lattan."

A variant story put forward is that Jack Lattin was an Irishman who danced himself to death at the age of 21.
...More at the Traditional Tune Archive https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Jackie_Layton

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DADGAD was: 
- Dario Piccarreta (Guitars)  https://soundcloud.com/dario-piccarreta
- Massimo Cerra (Oboe & Recorder)https://soundcloud.com/massimocerra
- me (Northumbrian smallpipes)

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