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DRINKING SONG. AKA - "San Ól," "Ól Dán." Irish, Air (3/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "This air...was contributed by William Elliot Hidson, a well-known Irish patriot and scholar of the last century" (Joyce).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Song), 1909; No. 505, pp. 275-276.

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