Annotation:Down on the Floor

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 DOWN ON THE FLOOR (Síos Air An Úrlár). Irish, Air (6/8 time). G Major/A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Source for notated version: "Sent to me ...during 1884 by Mr. Francis Hogan of South Lodge, Brenormore, near Carrick-on-Suir, a good musician and a great enthusiast in Irish music and songs. He must have been well over seventy years of age. some of these he wrote from memory, and others he copied from MSS." (Joyce).  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 267, p. 127.  Recorded sources:

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