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Paddy plays this in the key of C. He composed it around the early 1960s. When asked why he doesn’t have titles for his tunes, he said: ‘If I did, then people would not know they are my compositions’.
F A2 B | cBc dcB | cGE CEG | FEF DEF | GAB ced | cBc dGB | cEA GEC | FEF DGF | ECC CEG || c2 G dcB | cGE CEG | FEF DEF | GAB ced | cBc dGB | cGA GEC | FEF DGF | ECC CEG || c2 g g^fg | ea^f gec | A2 f fef | Adf afd | c2 g g^fg | ea^f ge=f | gec fdB | cGE CEG || c2 g g^fg | ea^f gec | A2 f fef | Adf afd | c2 g g^fg | ea^f ge=f | gec fdB | cGE CEG || c2 G dcB | cGE CEG | FEF DEF | GAB ced | cBc dGB | cGA GEC | FEF DGF | ECC CEG || c2 G dcB | cGE CEG | FEF DEF | GAB ced | cBc dGB | cEA GEC | FEF DGF | ECC CEG || c2 g g^fg | ea^f gec | A2 f fef | Adf afd | c2 g g^fg | ea^f ge=f | gec fdB | cGE CEG || c2 g g^fg | ea^f gec | A2 f fef | Adf afd | c2 g g^fg | ea^f ge=f | gec fdB | cGE C3 |