- Style
- Celtic
- Tradition
- Irish
- Form
- Reel
- Key
- D
- Level
- 3
- Played on
- Fiddle and Mandolin
In the public domain. Source
Music
90bpm
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Chord chart
History
The reel was little known until Leitrim flute player John McKenna and Sligo fiddler James Morrison recorded it as a duet in 1929. Michael Coleman's 1934 recording, where it closes a medley after "The Tarbolton" and "The Longford Collector," made it famous, and sessions still play the three together.
The first part is usually played once and the second twice. The second part has a lot in common with the second part of the American breakdown "Billy in the Lowground."