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DROICHEAD BEAG, AN (The Little/Small Bridge). Irish, Hornpipe. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). A modern composition by Frankie Lane (Stamullen, County Meath). It was perhaps named for the pub "The Small Bridge" which was a famous session pub in Dingle, County Kerry, which Lane and others frequented.

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Recorded sources: Kells Records, Frankie Lane - "Live at Hughes." Kells Records, Brendan Begley - "We Won't Go Home Till Morning." Kells Records, Breandán Begley et al. - "Mighty Session" (1996).




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