Annotation:Five Mile Chase (1)

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 FIVE MILE CHASE [1], THE. AKA and see "Ballyvaughan," "Corporal Casey (2)," "Corporal Casey's Fancy," "Corporal Casey's Favourite," "Four-Hand Reel (The)," "Lady Gardner's," "Lady Gardner's Troops," "Lamb on the Mountain," "Miss Gardner," "Parnell's Reel," "Wild Fire Chase (The)," "Yellow Haired Laddie (1)." Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Black, Harker/Rafferty, Kennedy): AAB (O'Neill, Skinner): AABB (Levey): AABB' (Perlman).  Source for notated version: Johnny Foe & Foncey Chaisson (b. 1918 & 1929, North-East Kings County, Prince Edward Island) [Perlman]; Pat Henry (County Sligo/New York) & Mick Tubridy (Dublin) [Black]; New Jersey flute player Mike Rafferty, born in Ballinakill, Co. Galway, in 1926 [Harker].  Printed sources: Black (Music's the Very Best Thing), 1996; No. 345, p. 184. Harker (300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty), 2005; No. 26, p. 9. Kennedy (Traditional Dance Music of Britain and Ireland: Reels and Rants), 1997; No. 48, p. 13. Levey (Dance Music of Ireland, 2nd Collection), 1873; No. 22, p. 9. O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 162. Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 63. Skinner (Harp and Claymore), 1904; p. 144.  Recorded sources: Coleman Center CD CC004, Seamus Quinn & James McDonagh - "The Mountain Road" (1999. Various artists. "A Compilation of tunes popular in South Sligo"). Lochshore CDLDL 1214, Croab Rua - "The More That's Said the Less the Better" (1992).  See also listings at: Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources Alan Ng's Irishtune.info

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