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There’s a fine cheeky lilt to this old-style English country dance tune, which has been part of the Irish music tradition for many generations. It’s also a tune embedded in the north of Ireland fiddling tradition. I learned it from hearing the tune in the hands of fiddler Sean Maguire.
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