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Seamus Tansey introduced this second reel of Jackie Coleman’s on an Irish radio broadcast accompanied by bodhrán. It was more than ten years later that I again heard the same recording of Tansey, this time I had my own tape recorder nearby, and finally learned it.
c3 A | G2 GA GE DE | CE{/G} EE GCEG | cG Bd{/e} cdef |
ge de A2 cA | G G2 A GEDE | CE{/G} EE GCEG | cG Bd cd ef |
ge df ed{/e} cB || cc ec Gcec | _Bc dB FBdB | cd ec Gceg |
fe df ed{/e} cB | c2 ec Gc ec | _Bc dB FB dB | cd ef gf eg |
fe df ed cA || G G2 A GE DE | CE{/G} EE GCEG | cG Bd{/e} cdef |
ge d{/e} c A2 cB | G3 A GE DE | CE{/G} EE GCEG | cG Bd cdef |
ge df ed{/e} cB || ccec Gcec | _Bc dB FB dB | cd ec Gceg |
fe df ed cB | cc ec Gc ec | _Bc d/c/B FBdB | cd ef ggeg |
fe df ed{/e} cA || G3 A GE DE | CE{/G} EE GCEG | cG Bd cd ef |
ge d{/e} c AAcA | G G2 A GE DE | CE{/G} EE GC EG | cG Bd cd ef |
ge df ed cB || ccec Gcec | _Bc dB FBdB | cd ec Gceg |
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fe df{/g} ec{/e} c2- | c6 |