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Box player Billy McComiskey, who lives in Baltimore, composed this tune, which he plays in B flat. Billy put this on tape for me one afternoon in San Francisco in 1989 when we got together in the home of our mutual friend, accordion player and dance teacher Patricia Kennelly. On this recording, I play it in the key of C.
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