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BATH ROAD HORNPIPE. AKA and see "Brendan's Fancy," "Concertina Hornpipe (2)." Irish, Hornpipe. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Phillip Heath-Coleman finds cognates in a tune collected by Cecil Sharp from the playing of Henry Cave (1850-1907, Castle Cary, Somerset) simply called "Country Dance," in another in the Llewelyn manuscript as "Glamorgan."

Source for notated version: Chicago police Sergeant James O'Neill, originally from Ulster, and Francis O'Neill's collaborator on his 1903 publication [O'Neill].

Printed sources: O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 193. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 1682, p. 313.

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