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Tatter Jack may have been a priest in Chicago, since people in the old days would usually address ‘Father Jack’ in Irish as ‘An tAthair Jack.’ I also learned this from Seamus Egan, whose uncle Cyl Donellan ‘dug it’ out of O’Neill’s – it was a tune he would often play on his fiddle.
d2 e | fef ded | ^cAB =c2 e | dcA GFG | Add efg | add fed | cAB c2 e | dcA GFG | Add d2 e || fef ded | cAB c2 e | dcA GFG | Add efg | add fed | cAB c2 e | dcA GFG | Add d2 A || dfa afa | dfg agf | gef g/f/ga | gef gfg | add fed | cAB c2 e | dcA GFG | Add d2 A || dfa afa | dfg agf | gef g2 a | gef gfg | add fed | cAB cde | dcA GFG | Add d2 e || =fef ded | ^cAB =c2 e | dcA GFG | Add efg | add fed | cAB cde | dcA GFG | Add d2 e || fef ded | cAB c2 e | dcA GFG | Add efg | add fed | cAB cde | dcA GFG | Add d2 a || dfa afa | dfg agf | gef g2 a | gef gfg | add fed | cAB c2 e | dcA GFG | Add d2 a || dfa afa | dfg agf | gef gag | fef gfg | add fed | cAB cde | dcA GFG | Add d3 |
