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KNIGHT ON THE ROAD, THE. Irish, Air (4/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. This pentatonic song, a variant of the English ballad "False Knight on the Road (The)," is still sung in County Tyrone to a variant of "Uist Tramping Song (The)" (Séan Ó Boyle, 1976).

Source for notated version: Frank Quinn (Coalisland, County Tyrone) [Ó Boyle].

Printed sources: Ó Boyle (The Irish Song Tradition), 1976; p. 66.

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