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Annotation:Boys of the Lough (The)
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BOYS OF THE LOUGH, THE (Buachaillí na Locha). AKA and see "Barrel Rafferty's Reel," "Jerome's Farewell to Gibraltar," "Johnstown Reel," "Rose of Castletown." Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Flaherty): AABB (Brody, Allan's): AABB' (Cranford/Holland): ABCD (Breathnach): ABCDEFGHIJKL (Miller). A very popular session reel. "Boys of the Lough" was popularized by fiddler Michael Coleman, originally from Kilavil, County Sligo, although the melody was "ever part of the local ...repertoire," according to Blooming Meadows (1998) authors Charlie Piggott and Fintan Vallely. Coleman (1891-1945) recorded the tune in 1922 in New York. O'Neill (in 400 Choice Selections) printed the tune under the title "Johnstown Reel," while Frank Roche printed a version of the reel in 1912 as "Rose of Castletown" in his first volume of traditional Irish music. See also similarly titled but musically unrelated jig "Boys from the Lough (The)." "Barrel Rafferty's Reel"/"Master McDermott's Reel" is a related tune, as is the Canadian "Jerome's Farewell to Gibraltar," popularized under that title by radio and TV fiddler Don Messer.