Annotation:Rayan's Rant
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RAYAN'S RANT. AKA and see "Ray's Rant," "Ryan's Rant." Irish, Reel (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The first strain of Aird's "Rayan's Rant" may be cognate with O'Neill's "Fairy Hurlers (1) (The)." See most versions under title "Ryan's Rant." County Leitrim fiddler and piper biography:Stephen Grier (c. 1824-1894) entered the tune as "Ray's Rant" in his 1883 music manuscript collection (Book 1, No. 21). Grier was originally from north Longford, but who moved around 1852 to Newpark, Bohey, Gortletteragh, south Leitrim.
