X: 1
T:She Didn't Dance and Dance
R:slide
H:See also "My Mind Will Never Be Easy", slip jig#52
Z:id:hn-slide-112
M:6/8
L:1/8
F:http://norbeck.nu/abc/i/hnsl1.abc
K:Edor
g2f |: e2d B2A | G2F G2A | Bdd edB | d3 dgf |
e2d B2A | G2F G3 | efg fed |1 e2f g2f :|2 e3 e2d ||
Bcd e2f | g2f g2B | BAB d2B | d3 B2A |
Bcd e2f | g2f g2a | bag agf | e3 e2d |
Bcd e2f | g2f g2B | BAB d2B | d3 g2a |
bag agf | gfe fed | efg fed | e2f ||
SHE DIDN’T DANCE AND DANCE. AKA and see “Pete Sullivan's.” Irish, Slide (12/8 time). Ireland, Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border. E Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA’B. See also the related slip jig “<incipit title="load:Mind" width=850 link="https://tunearch.org/wiki/My Mind Will Never be Easy">My Mind Will Never be Easy</incipit>/Aisy.” The alternate title, "Pete Sullivan's" may possibly refer to a dancing master of that name; he was a native of County Kerry, who along with fellow Kerryman Con O'Sullivan, ran separate Irish dancing schools in St. Louis in the mid-20th century and who organised ceili gatherings and feiseanna.
Additional notes
Source for notated version: - accordion player Johnny O’Leary (Sliabh Luachra region) [Moylan].
Printed sources : -
Breathnach, Ceol: A Journal of Irish Music, vol. 2, no. 4, 1966; 98a (appears as “Pete Sullivan’s Fancy”).
Moylan (Johnny O’Leary of Slibh Luachra), 1994; No. 123, pp. 71-72.
Recorded sources: -Gael-Linn CEF132, Johnny O’Leary - “An Calmfhear/The Trooper” (1989).
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