Annotation:Gallant Tipperary Boys (The)

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 GALLANT TIPPERARY BOYS, THE (Tiobraid-Arann Calma). AKA and see "Old Figary O' (The)," "Young May Moon (The)." Irish, Double Jig or Slide (12/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Moylan, Roche): AA'BB (Moylan): AABBCCDD (O'Neill). In Kerry the tune, which Thomas Moore used for his "Young May Moon," is often played as a slide. See also the possibly related slide "First Cousin of the Gallant Tipperary Boys."  Source for notated version: accordion player Johnny O'Leary (Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border) [Moylan]; "Cronin" [O'Neill], referring to Chicago fiddler Edward Cronin, originally from Limerick Junction, County Tipperary, born c. 1840's.  Printed sources: Moylan (Johnny O'Leary), 1994; Nos. 97 and 129, pp. 55-56 & 75-76 (two versions). O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 894, p. 166. Roche (Collection of Irish Traditional Music, vol. 1), 1913; No. 39, p. 20.  Recorded sources: Topic 12T357, Johnny O'Leary - "Music for the Set" (1977).  See also listing at: Alan Ng's Irishtune.info

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