Annotation:Fair and Forty

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 FAIR AND FORTY ("Deatamuil's Daficad" or "Daichead is Dathuil"). AKA and see "Cale Smith's Pastime," "Seven Up." Irish; Reel and Hornpipe. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (O'Neill/1850): AA'B (O'Neill/Krassen): AABB (Breathnach, O'Neill/1001). The tune is rendered as a hornpipe as well as a reel. It was printed prior to O'Neill in Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883) under the titles "Cale Smith's Pastime" and "Seven Up."  Source for notated version: accordionist Partick O'Brien, 1970 (Dublin, Ireland) [Breathnach].  Printed sources: Breathnach (CRÉ II), 1976; No. 302, p. 154 (hornpipe setting). O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 147. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 1482, p. 274. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 840, p. 145 (hornpipe setting).  Recorded sources: Sean Ryan - "Back Home..." (appears as "Charlie Mulvihill's").

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