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This is another tune from an old radio programme during the early 1960s, when I taped it with my new Grundig reel-to-reel recorder. The musician playing this was a banjo player whose name wasn’t mentioned because the jig was being used here and there as the background music for a radio play.
d2 c | BGG BGd BGG | efg BGG BGB | ABA ecA ABc | BGG BGd BGG | efg BGG BGB | ABA ecA ABc || BAB gdB gdB | [M:6/8] BAB efg |[M:9/8] B/d/BB gdB gdB | ABA A2 B cBA | BAB gdB gdB | [M:6/8] BAB efg |[M:9/8] B/d/BB gdB gdB | ABA A2 B cBA || BGG BGd BGG | efg BGG BGB | ABA ecA ABc | BGG BGd BGG | efg BGG BGB | ABA ecA ABc || BAB gdB gdB |[M:6/8] BAB efg |[M:9/8] B/d/BB gdB gdB | ABA A2 B cBA | B/d/BB gdB gdB |[M:6/8] BAB efg |[M:9/8] B/d/BB gdB gdB | ABA A2 B cBA | G3- G3 |
