Annotation:Doran's Ass

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 DORAN'S ASS. AKA and see "Finnegan's Wake" [2]?. American, March or Reel. USA, southwestern Pa. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. According to Bayard (1981) the title is the one the tune is most commonly known by, and comes from a "stage Irish" song (known in Pennsylvania as a folk song, "Dolan's Ass").  Source for notated version: Hiram Horner (fifer from Fayette/Westmoreland Counties, Pa., 1944, who learned it from Scots fifer David P. Henderson) [Bayard].  Printed sources: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 276, pp. 231-232.  Recorded sources:

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