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Larry Redican had another slightly different setting of this, which I first heard on a tape mailed to me in 1967 by a friend in New York. A few years later, I learned this setting from fiddler John Kelly, who had named it .Arthur Darley’s’.
G3 E | ED{/F} DD ECCG | ED{/F} DD c2 GF | EDDD ECEG |
Ad de cAGc | ED{/F} DD EC{/E} CG | ED{/F} DD c2 GF | ED{/F} DD EC EG |
Ad de cG EG || Addc dedc | A/B/c de fe dc | Ad dc de dc |
A/B/c Bd{/e} cGEG | Addc de dc | A/B/c de fede | fa gf ef dc |
A/B/c Bd{/e} cA Gc || ED{/F} DD ECG,C | ED{/F} DD c2 GF | EDDD ECEG |
Ad de cAGc | ED{/F} DD EC{/E} CC | ED{/F} DD c2 GF | ED{/F} DD EC EG |
Ad de cG EG || Addc dedc | A/B/c de fe dc | Ad dc de dc |
A/B/c Bd{/e} cGEG | Addc de dc | A/B/c de fede | fa gf ef dc |
A/B/c Bd{/e} cA Gc || ED{/F} DD ECCC | ED{/F} DD c2 GF | EDDD ECEG |
Ad de cAGc | ED{/F} DD ECGC | ED{/F} DD c2 GF | ED{/F} DD EC EG |
Ad de cG EG || Addc dedc | A/B/c de fe dc | Ad dc de dc |
A/B/c Bd{/e} cGEG | Addc de dc | A/B/c de fede | fa gf ef dc |
A/B/c Bd{/e} cA GE | sD8 |