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PRETTY POLLY LIKE A TROOPER DID RIDE. Irish, Air (3/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. See also song variants "Polly Oliver's Ramble," "Lady Annie," "Pretty Polly Oliver," "Billy Oliver's Rambles," "Maid's Resolution to Follow Her Love," and "Young William."

Source for notated version: Hugh O'Beirne, professional fiddler from Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim, c. 1846 [Joyce].

Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 640, pp. 324-325.

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See entry at The Contemplator [1]




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