Rhythm: song
Key: F
Meter: 6/8
Book: Joyce, P. W.; "Old Irish Folk Music and Songs"
History: In the year 1852 when I was busy drawing up from my memory, for Dr.
Petrie, all the airs I could thing of--and for that purpose commonly
carried a bit of music paper in my waistcoat pocket--I woke up from sleep
one night whistling this fine air in a dream: an air which I had forgotten
for years. Greatly delighted, I started up: a light, a pencil, and bit of
paper, and there was the first bar securely captured: the bird was, as it
were, caught and held by the tail. I have never seen this air written
elsewhere, except in one Co. Limerick Ms., where this setting however is
inferior to miune. I give it here from acient memory.
Words:
Oh, didn't you hear of the glorious news
That happened at Ballyhooly:
Dan Tutty the gauger was caught and thrashed
By Paddy and Timothy Dooly.

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