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Francis O’Neill collected this one from one of his contemporaries in Chicago during the late 1800s. James Kelly also played it on the same cassette that he gave me as a present some years ago. ‘Tatter the Road’ is a term suggesting one’s intention to do an amount of constant travel.
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