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FROM BILLY TO JACK. AKA and see AKA and see "Green Cottage Polka (1) (The)," "Denis Doody's (2)," "Glen Cottage Polka (1) (The), "Glin Cottage Polka (1) (The)," "Quarry Cross Polka (The)," "St. Patrick was a Gentleman (2)," "McAllister's Fling," "Alasdair MacAlister." Irish, Polka. Ireland, Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border. E Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. Source O'Leary said: "(West Kerry fiddlers) Billy Clifford and Jack Clifford are the only two I ever heard playing that polka. Billy's father John Clifford, Julia's husband, he used to play that for every set. He was well able to, it was lovely."

Source for notated version: accordion player Johnny O'Leary (Sliabh Luachra region), recorded at Na Píobairí Uilleann, October, 1984 [Moylan].

Printed sources: Moylan (Johnny O'Leary), 1994; No. 160, p. 92.

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