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AUNTY/AUNTIE MARY. Irish, Jig. The Irish version of the English "Joan's Plackett (is Torn)" and the Scotch "Cock of the North (1)." The tune is known as a fiddle/accordion tune in eastern Canada today and has risqué words that begin:
My Aunt Mary got a canary
Up the leg of her drawers...'
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