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Standard tuning (fiddle). ~ published in Burk Thumoth’s book, "Twelve Scotch and Twelve Irish Airs", c. 1742 ~ "With Variations, set for the German Flute, Violin or Harpsichord by Mr Burk Thumoth." 21, p. 8 (appears as “Rakes of Mall”). K: G It is similar to the tune of The Rigs of Marlow, from which it may have been adapted. K: Gmaj
The bit that went missing…, I woke up lilting it this way and then playing it on various instruments the same, and other ways too…
& K: Amaj ~ |: Ac Ac | Ac d/c/B/A/ | ~, There must be an endless number of different takes on this tune in circulation out there. S: O’Neill’s Music of Irleand, 1903, page 341, tune #1814
Live the Rakes of Mallow;
Moffat (Minstrelsy of Ireland), 1897; p. 21. Lhigey, Lhigey myr ochene. M:4/4
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145–148. "Steve Eulberg talks more about the reel rhythm and teaches Page 31 ~ #119
We play this tune regularly at our local session because the two fiddle players like it. S: Johnny Doherty, as heard on RTE radio
yllabus of rish ances as danced at the arry lough in Berkeley, California. 9 at the Hibernian Hotel, Mallow. If you arenât a member of The Session yet, you can sign up now. Racking tenants, stewards teasing,
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4: Fine Tunes), 1983 (revised 1991, 2001); p. 13. Printed sources : - Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. Outside of Ireland too ~ Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, England, Denmark, South Africa, Canada, the U.S.A. ~ this little number and various dances that became associated with it ~ spread. T: Sandy Lent the Man His Mill T: The Rakes of Mallow (Jolly Sailor) Smollet Holden (A Collection of Old Established Irish Slow and Quick Tunes, vol.
Four stylii were used to transfer this record. 190A–G, pp. For a more detailed search, take a look at the kinds of information page. One of the early printings of the tune is in the collection of Burke Thumoth, 1745 (as “Rakes of Marlow”), and Paul Gifford has found it in a manuscript of Danish hakkebraet (dulcimer) tablature under the title "Rakes of London," dated 1753. Mallow is located in County Cork, in the province of Munster. R: polka
Also known as The elderly Dunham was Henry Ford's champion fiddler in the late 1920's. As a JamPlay member, you will have unrestricted, unlimited access to each of these as well as hundreds of other song lessons! Ghuilley, Ghuilley, gow inneen. ). I’ve grown up around traditional morris dance music, I knew this song sounded so familiar, so it makes sense about the new england thing. |: d |\
AKA – “Rakes of Malta,” “Rakes of Mellow," "Le râteau de mallon"/"Rakes of Mallon." The Rakes Of Mallow appears in 5 other tune collections. Very cool. X: 3
This is likely to have originally been part of the early wire strung harp repertoire. This tune is just ubiquitous in Scottish Country Dancing; I don’t think I went to a ceilidh or school dance in my youth when this didn’t pop up somewhere. g2 fe d2 c2|B2 c2 d4 |cBAG FGAB |G4 G2 z2|, Interesting take, but there’s no way this sits well as a ‘fling’. Then to end this raking life,
The Rakes Of Mallow polka Also known as Balls Up, Galway Piper, High Could Cap, Jolly Sailor, La Pitoune, Lhigey, Lhigey, Mallow Fling, Na Racairide Ua Mag-Ealla, Notre Dame University Fight Song, Piping Tim Of Galway, The Rakes Of London, The Rakes Of Mall, The Rakes Of Malta, The Rakes Of Marlow, The Rakes Of Mellow, The Rigs Oâ Marlow, The Rigs Of Marlow, Romping Molly, Timâs Reel, ⦠Last tune in "Medley of Irish Polkas"). Croker says that the young men of that fashionable water-drinking town were proverbially called “the rakes of Mallow,” and he adds: “A set of pretty pickles they were, if the song descriptive of their mode of life, here recorded after the most delicate oral testimony, is not very much over-coloured.” Turn and link left arms and dance anticlockwise finishing up between his two partners (4b). If you are a member of The Session, log in to add a comment. Below are the lyrics for the Rakes of Mallow, supposed a traditional, Irish drinking song:
Lyrics here: http://www.labolduc.qc.ca/la-bolduc-son-oeuvre/paroles-des-chansons/2.html, The Winster Gallop is a close cousin: https://thesession.org/tunes/3570. Rakes of Mallow (The) Click on the tune title to see or modify Rakes of Mallow (The)'s annotations. O'Brien (Jerry O'Brien's Accordion Instructor), Boston, 1949. 133. Bluebird B-4937 (78 RPM), Robert Lemieux and Hector Charbonneau (1936, as "Le râteau de mallon"/"Rakes of Mallon"). Hey, it’s a free world, they can suck on a pint if any of those tunes they consider naff or dag happen to find air at a session they’re party to… The silliness in them is part of their charm, but some people take this music far too seriously…
Woodchopper (Square Dance Calls with Music and Instructions), 1940; p. 46. I like to play the ending as |d/e/d/c/ B/C/B/A/ | BG G2 | but that’s just the version I picked up by whistling it! RAKES OF MALLOW, THE (Na Racairide Ua Mag-Ealla). The dance for this week is a relatively easy Irish ceili dance thatâs good for beginners and experienced dancers alike. M: 2/4
The Rakes Of Mallow has been added to 57 tune sets. Ever raking never Thinking GB GB/B/ | G>B c/B/A/G/ |FA F/G/A/G/ | FA D2 |
Other copies of the song are in The Charmer, 3rd. GB GB | GB c/B/A/G/ | FA DA | FA d/c/B/A/ |
This tune has been recorded together with, http://www.frmusique.ru/texts/b/bolduc/pitoune.htm, http://www.celtic-sheet-music.com/musicofireland.html, http://www.celtic-sheet-music.com/oneills/TheRakesOfMallow.pdf, "The Rakes of Mallow" & "Allen’s Irish Fiddler", http://www.oldmusicproject.com/allans.html, http://www.earlygaelicharp.info/sources/thumoth.htm, http://www.pipers.ie/imco/BTEISA47-TheRakesofMallow.HTM, http://www.mtrecords.co.uk/articles/summers.htm, "The Rakes Of Mallow" ~ 1742 ~ courtesy of Bent Allpress’s link above, "The Rakes of Mallow" ~ having a bit of fun, http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/m2/f7/13533.mp3, http://www.labolduc.qc.ca/la-bolduc-son-oeuvre/paroles-des-chansons/2.html. M: C The song is also in the 4th ed. |: gf/e/ dc | Bc d2 | gf/e/ dc | Bg A2 |
29, p. 118. 33, p. 125. Columbia 33505-F (78 RPM), O'Leary's Irish Minstrels (paired with "Jack McGrale's Jig"). He was music editor of The Citizen or Dublin Monthly Magazine from 1841-1843, and had collected the tune from "Mrs. (Maggy) Foley," evidently a singer who was the source for several airs in Hudson's manuscript (see "Catherine Ogly" and "My High Caul Cap"). The song was written about the Creagh family who came from Doneraile, seven miles away.
"Road To Boston" is another tune which these two fiddlers play frequently for the dances but not at the local sessions. Kennedy (Fiddler's Tune-Book, vol. Russell (The Piper's Chair), 1989; p. 17. The earliest appearance of the tune is in Walshâs Caledonian Country Dances (1733). The song is about the rakes from the town of Mallow, a town in County Cork. |G2 B2 G2 B2|G2 B2 cBAG|F2 A2 F2 A2|F2A2 BAGF|
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This tune is played a lot in the film The Quiet Man starring John Wayne, hi i have grown up with this sort of music all my life, im a dancer, and now am learning it on the fiddle have you got any tips to help me with this tune ð. DG/A/ B2 DG/A/ B2 | DG/A/ BG d2 cB | ecdB AcBA | G4 G4 :|
See also listings at: Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 169. M: 2/4
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22. Folk dance is an important element of the dance strand of the PE curriculum. Click on any of them to find tunes that match. This page was last edited on 11 September 2019, at 02:21. gf/e/ d/e/d/c/ | B/A/B/c/ d/c/B/c/ | gf/e/ d/e/d/c/ | B/A/B/e/ AB/d/ |
In 1775 he was a Major in the 3rd New York Regiment, which participated in Montgomery’s invasion of Canada in a failed attempt to wrest Montreal from British control. See:
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O'Malley & Atwood (Seventy Good Old Dances), 1919; p. 39. Bronner (Old Time Music Makers of New York State), 1987; No. 3), c. 1880's; No. Spending faster than it comes, Dance Identifier 78_rakes-of-mallow_gbia0025155a Location USA Restored True Run time 00:03:15 Scanner Internet Archive Python library 1.7.3 Scanningcenter George Blood, L.P. It was background music for a PBS TV series called Sharp’s Rifles a few years ago, where it was used as a march. Then like politicians, thinking
Cazden (Dances from Woodland), 1955; p. 39. P.M. Haverty (One Hundred Irish Airs vol. Click through for notes and video links. 64, p. 26 That tune direction is circular, since the first verse and chorus of the latter are in David Herd's MS, c 1776, (reprinted by Hecht, Songs from David Herd's Manuscripts, 1904) with the tune direction "The Rakes of Mallow.". I try to give some of the variations Johnny Doherty gave in playing the tune by writing out the repeats, AABB ~
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Let’s see some of them, please?!
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Recorded sources: - Breaking windows, damning, sinking, .G.B .G.B | .G.B .d.B | c/B/A/G/ F/G/A/c/ | BG Gz |
Source for notated version: - Lewis Jilson (Bernardstown, Mass.) Jane Keefer’s Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1] Swiftly spending, slowly raising,
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This video features a group of second graders taught by Allison Barker at Boone Meadow Elementary. Karpeles & Schofield (A Selection of 100 English Folk Dance Airs), 1951; p. 33 (appears as "Rigs O' Marlow" in an strathspey setting). To raise the "sinking funds"when sinking. K: G
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11, p. 46. http://www.earlygaelicharp.info/sources/thumoth.htm
AKA and see "Heights of Alma (1) (The)," “Jolly Sailor,” “Piping Tim of Galway,” “Rakes of London,” "Rigs o' Marlow," “Romping Molly.” Irish (originally), English, Scottish, American; Air, Polka, Reel or March. Wade (Mally's North West Morris Book), 1988; p. 14. Thumoth (12 English and 12 Irish Airs), 1746; No. gf/e/ dc | Bc d2 | gf/e/ dB | ce A2 |
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However, the earliest appearance of “Rakes of Mallow” is in Walsh’s London-published Caledonian Country Dances of 1733 (p. 34), and the earliest printings are from England. Columbia Acoustic Record, Pipe Major J. Starck (1915). Balls Up, Galway Piper, High Could Cap, Jolly Sailor, La Pitoune, Lhigey, Lhigey, Mallow Fling, Na Racairide Ua Mag-Ealla, Notre Dame University Fight Song, Piping Tim Of Galway, The Rakes Of London, The Rakes Of Mall, The Rakes Of Malta, The Rakes Of Marlow, The Rakes Of Mellow, The Rigs O’ Marlow, The Rigs Of Marlow, Romping Molly, Tim’s Reel, What A Bloody Balls Up. g2 fe d2 c2 | B2 c2 d4 | cBAG FGAB | G4 G2 z2 |], "Kerr’s Third Collection of Merry Melodies"
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I, p. 277, 1782, in The Charms of Melody, Dublin, 1776, and in the Encyclopedia of Comic Songs, London, 1819. Two Hand Country Dance Rakes of Mallow Waves of Tory Denis Murphy's Reel Set Dancing North Kerry Set Rakes of Mallow Tento tanec vznikl na ceilí v Irish College v Omeath, protože na tancovaÄce pÅíÅ¡lo více dívek než chlapců. L: 1/8
âRakes of Mallowâ was prominently featured in director John Fordâs film The Quiet Man, starring John Wayne (filmed in the village of Cong, Ireland), as the theme for the fight scene when the town comes alive. K:G
I like to play this tune as if I were playing it for dancers. Since both of the fiddlers also play for contra dancing and folk dancing, yes they play "Rakes Of Mallow" for the dances as well. R: country dance
Columbia 33069-F (78 RPM), Michael Coleman & Tom Morrison (1925.
Bruce Olson gives a good history of the song at the Digital Tradition Mirror, and writes in part: Although widely known, the widely known version of this song is usually somewhat expurgated. This tune This tune has these features. Lhigey, Lhigey gys y vargey, Lhigey, Lhigey gys y vargey,
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7: Michigan Tunes), 1986–87; p. 10. B: Burk Thumoth’s "Twelve Scotch and Twelve Irish Airs", 1742
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I just heard a Gael Force rendition of this on bagpipes with awesome guitar and heavy percussion. M: 2/4
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The Rakes Of Mallow has been added to 724 tunebooks. K: Gmaj
Dance Identifier 78_rakes-of-mallow_tex-williams-and-his-western-caravan_gbia0047914 Location USA Run time 0:06:47 Scanner Internet Archive Python library 1.7.7 Scanningcenter George Blood, L.P. ⦠G2 B2 G2 B2 | G2 B2 d2 d2 | cBAG FGAB | G4 G2 z2 ||
5. Bayard (1981) wrote that the title stemmed from the 18th century when the town of Mallow, County Cork (on the river Blackwater between Limerick and Cork City) was a well-known spa and known as the “Irish Bath” [the city of Bath, in England, was famous as a spa]. M: 4/4
The tune has sometimes been linked in New England with the dance "Morning Star," and mid-20th century called Ralph Page used it as an accompaniment to a dance he called "Ladies' Whirligig." Performer: O'Leary's Irish Minstrels 3rd Figure Irish Dance Set #2; Irish Polka. X: 3
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Live the Rakes of Mallow. B: Burke Thumoth collection (as “Rakes of Marlow”), 1745 The song with tune was printed about 1740 as a single sheet issue, copies of which are in the British Library and the Bodleian Library, Oxford. G2 B2 G2 B2|G2B2 d2 d2|cBAG FGAB |G4 G2 z2|
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DeVille (Universal Favorite Contra Dance Album), 1905; No. g2 fe d2 c2 | B2 c2 d4 | g2 fe d2 c2 | Bc d2 A4 |
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1814, p. 341. The video includes a tutorial on the dance steps if you watch all the way through!
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Have a peep at its double-entendres at: http://www.frmusique.ru/texts/b/bolduc/pitoune.htm. Beating Bawds, whores, and duns, R: polka
The Rose Tree/This is no' my Ain Lassie/The Rakes of Mallow Stirrat's Kate Dalrymple Stirrat's Kate Dalrymple George Stirrat and his Scottish Dance Band L16 5 2/2 Kate Dalrymple/The Rakes of Mallow Waves of Tory, The 1/4 / Try avoiding it like the plague, and everyone will think you’re fantastic. T:Mallow Fling
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Try to learn the dance!-Hindi cinema, often known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, is the Indian Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai (formerly Bombay). Formation: O ⦠England; North-West, Northumberland. T. Crofton Croker quotes the words of the original song in âThe Popular Songs of Irelandâ (1839), of which the first verse is as follows:â Beauing, belling, dancing, drinking, Keller (Giles Gibbs Jr., His Book for the Fife...1777), 1974; p. 11. Lhigey, Lhigey gys y vargey. Robbins (Collection of 200 Jigs, Reels, and Country Dances), 1933; No. K: GMaj
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The melody is still heard in English sessions in modern times, although considered a ‘beginner’s tune’, and it is widely recognized throughout the English-speaking world, and despite its Irish-sounding title, the tune's provenance has not been established. Mallow is located at the western end of the ‘Golden Vale’ which stretches across Ireland into Meath and Dublin. In the first of the preceding it is given as four double length stanzas. G>B GB/B/ | G/A/B/c/ d>B | cA F/A/d/c/ | BG G :|
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http://www.oldmusicproject.com/allans.html, ~ the tune used for "Sir Roger", the dance…
Learn The Rakes of Mallow. Russell (1989) calls it a “prosperous little town” today, and one which has attracted industry and population because of the good land nearby. L: 1/8
Beauing, belleing, dancing, drinking,
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USA; Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York State, Massachusetts, Maine. 2), 1785; No. 1), 1951; No. Still for mellow water crying;
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D. Link arms. 136, p. 62. 371, p. 41. Beating waiters bailiffs, duns,
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Hime (Forty Eight Original Irish Dances Never Before Printed with Basses), Dublin, 1804; No. Wier (Book of a Thousand Songs), 1918; p. 455. (3bag (3agf (3gfe dc | (3BAG (3cBA d4 | (3edc dB AcBA | G4 G4 :|
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[Linscott]; Les Weir, 1976 (New York State) [Bronner]; seven southwestern Pa. fifers and fiddlers [Bayard]; Bob Fleck (Michigan) [Johnson]. K: GMaj
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Ruth (Pioneer Western Folk Tunes), 1948; No. A distanced version was entered into the c. 1841 music manuscript collection of Henry Hudson, a Dublin dentist and an early collector. Ghuilley, Ghuilley, gow inneen. gf/e/ dd/c/ | Bg dB/d/ | c/B/A/G/ F/e/d/c/ | BG G |], "The Rakes Of Mallow" was published in Burk Thumoth’s book, "Twelve Scotch and Twelve Irish Airs", c. 1742, subtitled "With Variations, set for the German Flute, Violin or Harpsichord by Mr Burk Thumoth". Its chorus and lyrics where penned by Mary Travers (aka La Bolduc) c.1930 it seems. Topic 12T365, "The Flanagan Brothers: An Irish Delight" (1979. I’ve just corrected a small part of it, but was this a version where the parts repeated or not? T: Rakes Of Mallow, The
The trios consist of a gentleman with two ladies on his right. gf/e/ d/e/d/c/ | B/A/B/c/ d/c/B/c/ | c/B/A/G/ F/G/A/c/ | BG Gz |]
He was also a poet and musician, and presumably a dancer, as he was elected a Manager for the New York Assembly’s dancing season of 1774–1775, along with his 3rd cousin, John Jay, later U.S. Chief Justice of Governor of New York. Have fun with it. âThe Rakes of Mallowâ is a traditional Irish song , about the rakes from the town of Mallow (Co Cork). L: 1/8
~ or was it just a name the recorder teacher chose to give it? L: 1/8
North Star NS0038, "The Village Green: Dance Music of Old Sturbridge Village." Listen to The Rakes of Mallow - Single by Dance to Tipperary on Apple Music. gf/e/ dc | BG c2 |c/B/A/G/ F/G/A/c/ |BG G2 :|]. M: 2/4
For a more detailed search, take a look at the kinds of information page. L: 1/8
In dear Ireland there wasn’t a county, musician or ceili band I came across that didn’t have this tune as part of their repertoire ~ and able to get some pleasure out of playing it. G Major. This tune is most often heard as part of a set dance, not just in ireland, but in New England also. Given in 4/4 and also in 2/4 for comparison’s sake ~
Ever after live in strife,
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- Press play see an example of Bollywood dance. https://tunearch.org/w/index.php?title=Annotation:Rakes_of_Mallow_(The)&oldid=388458. And wish again for Mallow. There are some in amongst the ‘new breeds’ that frown on such tunes and choose to ignore them, avoid them. It had some other verses which are far, far too dirty to even imagine posting in this forum. Miller & Perron (New England Fiddler's Repertoire), 1983; no. Alan Ng’s Irishtune.info [2] K: GMaj
31, p. 8. See also the tune under the name “Romping Molly” in Shaw’s Cowboy Dances (1943). http://www.celtic-sheet-music.com/musicofireland.html
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They get sober, take a wife,
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Rakes of Mallow A Long Dance in Reel Time, for any even number of trios, danced to the tune of the same name, or any other reel. 54, p. 27. L: 1/8
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Gives the tune something of a lift & a giggle to boot. Hear the 1935 recording by Robert Lemieux and Hector Charbonneau (fiddle and accordion) at the Virtual Gramophone [5] (as "Le râteau de mallon"/"Rakes of Mallon"). Appears as "Heights of Alma"). http://www.mtrecords.co.uk/articles/summers.htm to it being used in Yorkshire for the dance ‘Ninepins’. Click on any of them to find tunes that match. Was it this way in a book? Notated, renotated and published by Terry Clyde F. O'Neal II, Edited and copy read many times by Lee Thompson-Herbert, 1996 About this syllabus If you don't Seattle/Vickers (Great Northern Tune Book, part 2), 1987; No.
There were specific dances that were danced to this tune, solo, couple and group… The earliest time base I can take it back to, from living memory, is the late 1800s in Eire/Ireland… I’ll see if I can find any notations for dance…and possibly older printed sources. Rakes of Mallow, The Rambler, The Rambling Pitchfork Rays of Hope Rebecca A Recent Fall Red Haired Boy Red River Valley Redwing (also Union Maid, Indian Maid) Reel Africain Reel Bijou Reel Célina Reel de Gaspé (Gaspé Her "Rakes of Mallow" is probably a vocal air. ‘Rakes’ appears to be short for 'rakehell', which itself stems from the Old Icelandic word reikall, meaning "wandering” or “unsettled." "Rakes of Mallow" has also been employed for either a polka or a single step dance in the North-West (England) morris dance tradition. Sym (Sym's Old Time Dances), 1930; p. 25. 1), c. 1805; No. f/a/ |\
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I like to play this in D on a D whistle; shifting it up a few keys makes the fingering slightly easier to do at speed and you get that wonderful piercing top D starting the downwards run in the B part. |: (3D/E/F/ |\
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A copy of the 1740's, given as eight four-line verses is in NLS MS 6299. M: 4/4
Road to Boston is a fife tune which I have been told was played by General Greene’s troops as they marched north from Rhode Island to help our colonial brethren up in Boston during the Revolutionary War. The Rakes of Mallow is a classic Ar Rince Foirne dance that you can find being danced pretty much world-wide. gf/e/ dd/c/ | Bc de/f/ | gf/e/ dc/B/ | eA Af/a/ |
Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. Lhigey, Lhigey gys y vargey, Sooree er inneenyn.
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