Annotation:It is not day no nor morning

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 IT IS NOT DAY, NO, NOR MORNING. AKA and see "Mad Buckgoat (The)" ("Poc Buille" or "Poc air Buille"). Irish, Air (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Poc ar Buille (An)" is one of the most readily recognized songs in Irish tradition today, says Paul de Grae, if only because the chorus is popularly reworded as "I'll fuckin' kill ye...". Joyce calls this a drinking song, and obtained it from the Pigot Collection. "This is a better setting than the one I have given in Ancient Irish Music, p. 57" (Joyce).  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Song), 1909; No. 693, p. 348.  Recorded sources:

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