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Mick was a local musician from my neck of the woods near Daingean, Co. Offaly. He visited our old thatched house very often during the 1950s. He showed me some rudiments of the accordion and was a great storyteller. I learned afterwards that his many visits for music and yarns were a pretense. In reality, he was a slave to the taste of my mother’s fresh bread. He was an old man when I knew him. My last memory is of him tugging at the lobe of his right ear, uttering, “Isn’t it great to be a musician, with all the adorable treatment we get!” This jig was one of his. I never heard anyone else play it.
B2 A | AFD DED | FED EFG | AFD DED | EFG A2 B | AFD DED | FED EFG | AGA BAG | FGE D2 F || AFD DED | FED EFG | AFD DED | EFG A2 B | AFD DED | FED EFG | A/G/FA BAG | FGE D2 E || FAd FAd | GBd GBd | Ace Ace | dcd fdA | FAd G/A/Bd | GBd GBd | AGA BAG | FGE D3 || FAd FAd | GBd GBd | Ace Ace | dcd fdA | FAd FBd | GBd GBd | AGA BAG | FGE DdB || AFD DED | FED EFG | AFD DED | EFG A2 B | AFD D/E/DD | FED EFG | AGA BAG | FGE D2 d || AFD DED | FED EFG | AFD DED | EFG A2 B | AFD DED | FED EFG | AFA BAG | FGE DAG || FAd FAd | GBd GBd | Ace Ace | dcd fdA | FAd F/G/Ad | GBd Gcd | AAA BAG | FGE D2 A || FAd FAd | GBd GBd | Ace Ace | dcd fdA | FAd FAd | GBd GBd | AFA BAG | EDE D3 |
