Annotation:Flaming O'Flanigan's

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 FLAMING O'FLANIGAN'S JIG. Irish, Jig. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABA. New York City researcher, writer and musician Don Meade finds the title to be taken from a 19th century song, with a chorus that goes: ''Hooroo! Whack!  For that was the way with the Flaming O'Flannagans,'' From the first illigant boys of that name; For kissing and courting, and filling the can again, Drinking and fighting like cocks of the game. ''Hooroo! Whack!''  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 67. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 98.  Recorded sources:

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