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KISS ME KATE (Tabair Do'm/Dam Pog A Cait). AKA and see "Charming Mollie's (1)." Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Harker/Rafferty, O'Neill/1850, Vallely): AA'B (O'Neill/Krassen): AABB (Mulvihill). As "Charming Mollie's (1)" the tune was earlier printed in Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883).

Source for notated version: recorded at Flead Ceol, New York, from the playing of fiddler Seamus Connolly and accordionist Joe Burke, 1978 [Mulvihill]; New Jersey flute player Mike Rafferty, born in Ballinakill, Co. Galway, in 1926 [Harker].

Printed sources: Harker (300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty), 2005; No. 109, pg. 33. Mulvihill (1st Collection), 1986; No. 88, p. 23. O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 137. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 1432, p. 266. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 669, p. 119. Vallely (Armagh Pipers Club Play 50 Reels), 1982; No. 21, p. 12.

Recorded sources:

See also listings at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [2]




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