Annotation:Old Peadar Carthy from Clonmore

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OLD PEADAR CARTHY FROM CLONMORE. Irish, March (4/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC. Clonmore is in Co. Carlow, and Darley & McCall identify Peadar (Peter) Carthy as a local celebrity. The third strain of the tune, a chorus, has these simple lyrics:

Old Peadar, old Peadar, old Peadar Carthy,
Old Peadar Carthy from Clonmore.

Source for notated version: "the late" Mr. John McCall (Ireland) [Darley & NcCall].

Printed sources: Darley & McCall (Darley & McCall Collection of Traditional Irish Music), 1914; No. 64, p. 29.

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