I first heard this played by the Northern Province Céilí Band on a 1968 radio broadcast from Dublin. Some years after, I met Co. Tyrone fiddler Felix Carney, a member of the band, who mentioned that this reel was named after a famous 18th century rapparee, or highwayman, who operated around the South Tyrone/Fermanagh area. Dickie was supposedly a dispossessed Irish landowner who avenged himself by taking back some of his own through acts of lawlessness. Felix said he was eventually apprehended by the yeomanry and hanged.

 c2 d2 e2 | fA AA fA gA | fA{/B} AA fedc | B/A/G dG eG dG |
 A/B/c de fede | fA{/B} AA fAgA | fA{/B} AA fedc | Bc de fd Bd/B/ |
 c/e/c- cB cdeg || fA{/B} AA fAgA | fA{/B} AA fedc | B/A/G dG eGdG |
 A/B/c de fede | fA{/B} AA fAgA | fA{/B} AA fedc | Bc de fdBd |
 c/e/c- cB cAGF || EE GE FE DC | EF GE FE DC | D3 E FE DC |
 G,B, DE FA GF | EEGE FE DC | EF GE FD EG | A/B/c df ecdB |
 c/e/ c2 B cA GF || EEGE FEDC | ED GE FE DC | DDDE FEDC |
 G,B, DE FA GF | EEGE FEDC | EF GE FD EG | Bcdf ecdB |
 c/e/c- cB cdeg || fA{/B} AA fAgA | fA{/B} AA fedc | B/A/G dG eGdG |
 A/B/c de fe de | fA{/B} AA fAgA | fA{/B} AA fedc | Bc de fd Bd |
 c/e/c- cB cdeg || fA{/B} AA fAgA | fA{/B} AA fedc | B/A/G dG eGdG |
 A/B/c de fede | fA{/B} AA fAgA | fA{/B} AA fedc | Bc de fd Bd |
 c/e/c- cB cA GF || EE GE FE DC | ED GE FE DC | D/F/ D2 E FE DC |
 G,B, DE FA GF | EE GE FE DC | EF GE FD EG | A/B/c df ecdB |
 c/e/c cB cAGF || EEGE FEDC | EFGE FEDC | D/F/D DE FEDC |
 G,B, DE FGAF | E2 GE FE DC | EF GE FDEG | A/B/c df ec dB |
 c/e/c cB c4- | c4 |