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The Orangeman

Found in 20010816.abc from the John Chambers abc collection
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The Orangeman - staff notation
X:3
T:The Orangeman
B:Joyce, P. W.; "Old Irish Folk Music and Songs"
R:song
H:  In the year 1852 when I was busy drawing up from my memory, for Dr.
H:Petrie, all the airs I could thing of--and for that purpose commonly
H:carried a bit of music paper in my waistcoat pocket--I woke up from sleep
H:one night whistling this fine air in a dream: an air which I had forgotten
H:for years.  Greatly delighted, I started up: a light, a pencil, and bit of
H:paper, and there was the first bar securely captured: the bird was, as it
H:were, caught and held by the tail.  I have never seen this air written
H:elsewhere, except in one Co. Limerick Ms., where this setting however is
H:inferior to miune.  I give it here from acient memory.
W:Oh, didn't you hear of the glorious news
W:  That happened at Ballyhooly:
W:Dan Tutty the gauger was caught and thrashed
W:  By Paddy and Timothy Dooly.
L:1/8
M:6/8
K:F
f/e/|d2 A cAG|F2 F F2 G|AGA cde|f3 gfe|
d2 A cAG|F2 F F2 G|A=Bc dec|d3 d2||
d|d2 c def|{e}g2 f edc|d2 c def|{e}g2 e c2 c|
d2 c def|{e}g2 f edc|AGA cde|f3 gfe|
d2 A cAG|F2 F F2 G|AGA cde|f3 gfe|
d2 A cAG|F2 F F2 G|A=Bc dec|d3 d2|]

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