Annotation:God Save Ireland

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X:1 T:God Save Ireland M:C L:1/8 R:March K:D AG|FA d>e d2 dc|BcdB A2 AG|FA de f2 ed|e2 a>a a2 AG| FA d>e d2 dc|BcdB A2 fe|dcdB cdef|d2 d>d d2|| f2f2 f2>e d>B|A4 d4|e2e2 f>ed>f|e2 a>a a2 AG| FA de d2 dc|BcdB A2 fe|dcdB cdef|d2d2d2:||

GOD SAVE IRELAND. Irish, March. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB. The tune is the American Civil War song "Tramp Tramp Tramp (the Boys are Marching)" transplanted to Ireland. The title appears in a list of tunes in his repertoire brought by Philip Goodman, the last professional and traditional piper in Farney, Louth, to the Feis Ceoil in Belfast in 1898 (Breathnach, 1997). While mostly traditional in his repertoire, Goodman regularly played several novelty or 'popular' tunes.

Additional notes

Printed sources : - Roche (Collection of Traditional Irish Music, vol. 2), 1912; No. 352, p. 63. Batt Scanlon (The Violin Made Easy and Attractive), San Francisco, 1923, p. 39.

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