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Offaly’s Ballinamere Céilí Band played this on a ‘Céilí House’ radio program on a Saturday evening just after I had hooked up our radio to a recharged acid battery. It was the first time this reel caught my attention. A couple of years later (after the purchase of a Grundig reel-to-reel tape machine) I learned it after recording a segment of Ciarán Mac Mathúna’s ‘A Job of Journeywork’.
A2 EA cA{/B} AA | ag ed cA BA | G2 DG BG Bd | ge dc Bd cB |
A3 B cA^ce | ag ed{/e} cAGE | AB cd ef ge | ag ed cA dc ||
A/B/A AB cA^ce | ag ed{/e} cABA | G/c/G GA BGBd | ge dc Bd cB |
A/B/A AB cA^ce | ag ed{/e} cAGB | AB cd ef ge | aged ^cAAa ||
ag e/f/g aa- ab | ag ed ^cAAa | ag ef gf ga | ge dc Bd Gd |
ag e/f/g a a2 b | ag ed ^cA BG | AB cd ef ge | ag ed ^c A2 a ||
ag eg ag eg | ag ed ^cA Aa | ag ef gf ga | ge dc Bd{/e} Gd |
ag e/f/g aa-ab | ag ed ^cA BG | AB cd ef ge | a3 e c A2 G ||
A/B/A AB cA^ce | ae-ed cABA | G/c/G GA BGBd | ge dc Bd cB |
A/B/A AB cA^ce | ag ed{/e} cAGB | AB cd ef ge | ag ed{/e} cAdc ||
A2 EA cAce | ag ed{/e} cABA | G2 DG BGBd | ge dc Bd cB |
AAAB cA^ce | ag ed{/e} cAGB | AB cd ef ge | ag ed ^c A2 a ||
ag e/f/g a a2 b | ag ed ^cA Aa | ag ef gf ga | ge dc Bd Gd |
ag e/f/g a3 b | ag ed ^cA AG | AB cd ef ge | ag ed B A3 ||
ag e/f/g a3 b | ag ed ^cA Aa | ag ef gf ga | ge dc Bd Gd |
ag e/f/g a3 b | ag ed ^cA AG | AB cd ef ge | ag ed ^cA A2- |
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