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Glendart is a townsland in west Co. Cork and located near the birthplace of Francis O’Neill’s mother Kit O’Mahony. The tune is well known to many musicians as ‘Paddy’s Return’. I first heard it played by Donegal police sergeant John McDwyer, who played the fiddle and was stationed in my local town of Daingean in Co. Offaly.
d2 A | BAF ADD | FEF DFA | BAF ADD |
FEE EFA | BAF ADA | FEF DFA | dAB AFE |
FDD DFA || BAF ADD | FEF DFA | BAF ADD |
CEE EFA | BAF ADD | FEF DFA | d2 B AFE |
FDD DFA || dfe d2 B | ABA AFA | dfe d2 f |
ede fdB | dfe d2 B | ABA ABc | dcB AFE |
FDD DFA || dfe d2 B | ABA AFA | dfe d2 f |
ede fdB | def edB | AFG ABc | dcB AFE |
FDD DFA || BAF ADD | FEF DFA | BAF ADD |
FEE E2 d | BAF ADD | FEF DFA | dAB AFE |
FDD DFA || BAF ADD | FEF DFA | BAF ADD |
FEE E2 d | BAF ADD | FEF DFA | dAB AFE |
FDD D2 A || dfe d2 B | AFA AFA | dfe d2 f |
ede fdB | dfe d2 B | AFA ABc | dcB AFE |
FDD D2 A || dfe d2 B | ABA AFA | dfe d2 f |
ede fdB | def edB | AFG ABc | dcB AFE |
FDD{/F} D3- |