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LITTLE CUCKOO OF ARD PATRICK, THE. Irish, Air (3/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB. This air was one of the melodies used by classical composer William Alwyn for his 1939-40 "Irish Suite for String Quartet." Ard Patrick is in County Limerick.

Source for notated version: "From Father Walsh" [Stanford/Petrie].

Printed sources: Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 583, p. 147.

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