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There are three or four settings of this, depending on what part of Ireland it came from. I heard this setting from a flute playing duet of Laura MacKenzie and Patty Bronson of Saint Paul, Minnesota. Larry O’Gaffe is a very old character from a comic song, which has a variety of versions.
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