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This is another nice piece of music that nowadays could be played as a set dance. I hadn’t heard it played by anyone in Ireland or the U.S. until I settled in Minnesota in 1982, and then I heard it played on Garrison Keillor’s radio show ‘A Prairie Home Companion’ by Minnesota’s own Northern Star Céilí Band. Later I was playing some gigs with fiddler Jamie Gans, who also played with the Northern Star, and with a bit of coaxing, he gave me the tune. It is a typical O’Carolan composition.
G | GDF G>AG | FDF G2 A | B/c/dB c/d/ec | Bde/f/ g2 a | gfe dcB | c/B/c/d/e/c/ A>BA/G/ | FDF AFA | G2 A/G/ G2 G || GDF G>AG | FDF G2 A | B/c/dB c/d/ec | Bde/f/ g2 a | gfe dcB | c/B/c/d/e/c/ A>BA/G/ | FDF AFA | G2 A/G/ G2 D || DB,D DB,D | ECE ECE | F/G/AA A2 G | F/E/Dd d2 c | BAG GgG | Gbd ecA | B/c/dd d>ed/c/ | Bc/B/A/G/ AFD | GEC CEG | D>DD dcB | c/d/eA FDF | G2 A/G/ G2 D || DB,D DB,D | ECE ECE | F/G/AA A2 G | F/E/Dd d2 c | BAG GgG | Ggd ecA | B/c/dd d>ed/c/ | Bc/B/A/G/ AFD | GEC CEG | D>DD dcB | c/d/eA FDF | G2 A/G/ G3 |
