View source for Annotation:My Brother Tom

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|f_annotation='''MY BROTHER TOM''' (Tomás mo dearbratair). AKA and see "[[Horse's Leotard (The)]]," "[[Stepping Stones (2)]]." Irish, Double Jig (6/8 time). D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. See also "[[Cailleach an Airgid]]," "[[Hag with the Money (The)]]," "[[I was born for sport]]," "[[Wealthy Widow (The)]]." "My Brother Tom" may be a distanced version version of "[[Cailleach an Airgid]]" (Hag with the Money) mistakenly printed by O'Neill in two sharps (although a mixture of mixolydian/major works as well). 
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[[File:irishmusicclub.jpg|700px|thumb|left|Chicago's Irish Music Club, c. 1903. James Kennedy is standing in the last row, extreme right.]]  
|f_source_for_notated_version=Chicago fiddler James Kennedy who had the tune from his father, Peter, a celebrated local fiddler from Ballinamore, County Leitrim [O'Neill] (see "[[Peter Kennedy's Fancy]]" for more on him). In a 1906 letter to Alfred Percival Graves in 1906 (printed in "A Few Gossipy Notes" in the '''Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society''', London, O'Neill wrote: "James and [sister] Ellen Kennedy, Ballinamore, Leitrim, fine violinists: father a noted player, said to be the best in the country--James is remarkable for his smooth, round tones, and the entire absence of scratching of bow."
|f_printed_sources=O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 50. O'Neill ('''Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies'''), 1903; No. 996, p. 185. O'Neill ('''Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems'''), 1986; No. 211, p. 49. 
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|f_see_also_listing=Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [http://www.irishtune.info/tune/788/]<br>
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