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 DUKE GORDON. AKA and see "Lord Gordon's Reel," "Tiarna Gordon," "Duke of Gordon's Favourite (2) (The)," "Duke of Gordon's Rant (The)," "The Waterloo Reel [3]," "The Rocks of Antiluce," "The Pride of Kildare [3]," "My Heart with Love is Breaking," "The Scotch Rose," "The Scotch Patriot's Reel," "The Rakes of Drumlish." Scottish, Irish, Reel. The melody was published in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1778 as "The Duke of Gordon's Rant," however, an older title is "Bod 'Na Sheasamh," published some twenty years earlier. Uilleann piper Seamus Ennis played a version of the tune, says Neil Mulligan, which he had from his father, who learned it from the famous piper and reed-maker, Pat Ward of the Black Bill, Drogheda.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources:  Recorded sources: CCE Néillidh Mulligan - "The Leitrim Thrush."

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