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General George Armstrong Custer of the old U.S. Seventh Cavalry is very much associated with this walking march, and is said to have had his fife and drum band play it when he and his troops were on their way to the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana in 1876. Garryown is in Co. Limerick, which is where the tune is said to have originated.
g2 f | edc BAG | BdB Bgf | edc BAG | ABA Agf | edc BAG | BdB B2 d | def gdB | ABA Agf || edc BAG | BdB Bgf | edc BAG | ABA Agf | edc BAG | BdB B2 d | def gdB | ABA ABc || d2 B ddB | ddB dBd | eec eec | eec e2 f | g2 a b2 a | gfe d2 B | def gdB | ABA ABc || d2 B ddB | d2 B dBd | e2 c eec | eec e2 f | g2 a b2 a | gfe d2 B | def gdB | ABA Agf || edc BAG | BdB Bgf | ede BAG | ABA Agf | edc BAG | BdB B2 d | def gdB | ABA ABc || d2 B ddB | ddB dBd | e2 c eec | eec e2 f | g2 a b2 a | gfe d2 B | def gdB | ABA ABA | G6 |
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