View source for Annotation:As I Walked on the Road to Sligo

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|f_annotation='''AS I WALKED ON THE ROAD TO SLIGO.''' Irish, Air (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB.  P.W. Joyce printed two variants of the tune, as "[[Kitty Alone]]" and "As I Walked on the Road to Sligo," while George Petrie collected a version from Patrick Carew's mss.<ref>Researcher Nicholas Carolan of the Irish Traditional Music Archive records that P. Carew (or, as collector William Forde gave his name, 'Paddy Carey') was a musically literate professional uilleann piper living in Lag Lane, St Finbarre’s parish, Cork, in the mid-1840's. The area, notes Carolan, was near a military barracks, and was the location of shebeens (illicit bars) and brothels, notorious for poverty and crime.  A number of harper Turlough O'Carolan's compositions were in his repertoire, and were the object of collectors.  </ref> as "[[Paddy Brown]]."
|f_printed_sources=P.W. Joyce ('''Old Irish Folk Music and Songs'''), 1909; No. 123, p. 62.
|f_tune_annotation_title=https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:As_I_Walked_on_the_Road_to_Sligo >
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