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'''HUGHIE'S CAP'''. Irish, Reel. D Minor ('A' part) & D Dorian ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. Composed by County Cavan/Philadelphia fiddler and composer Ed Reavy (1898-1988). Hughie, according to a story by Reavy, was an easygoing character who could look particularly menacing when he wore a particular cap, and when intimidation was needed apparently Hughie was the man to call. 
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Interviewed by musician and folklorist Mick Moloney in 1975, Reavy explained:
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''Hughie’s Cap…there’s a story attached to that you know.  Hughie was a fella'' 
''that lived down town here you know and he used to travel around to quite a'' 
''few of the parties and he was a big strappin’ fella, very muscular, and appeared'' 
''like a bully…which he really wasn’t you know.  But a lot of the fellas from'' 
''Ireland, from certain parts of Donegal…and I guess maybe of other counties too…but''
''particularly Donegal…if they had any little differences in the old country some of''
''them, well, they’d take it out here with them you know.  At'' 
''the parties they kinda wanted to take it out on one another…say something insulting,'' 
''annoy the other fella and maybe get into a little scuffle.  But getting back to''
''Hughie…there was an accordeon player here by the name of Frank Meehan…he was from Donegal,'' 
''God rest his soul, he’s dead…and Hughie’s dead too…but there was a party in a certain house'' 
''down town and it was in the summertime, and my brother George was at the party…So these'' 
''fellas from a place called Carrigart in Donegal they didn’t like this Frank Meehan…or'' 
''they had some reason to dislike him, whether it was from the old country or not, it'' 
''probably did…and Frank was getting a kinda scared because he didn’t have many in there'' 
''to give him any backing you know or support.  So this Hughie was a brother-in-law of'' 
''Meehan’s and he lived up 2 or 3 houses from where the party was…so Frank Meehan says to'' 
''my brother George “go up and get Hughie”…this is the fella I was telling you looked like'' 
''a bully.  He wore a cap you know like they used to in Ireland.  So it was a hot night and'' 
''he came into the house with his hands in his pockets.  He’d really scare you to look at him.''  
''So Frank figures when they’d get a good look at Hughie it would cool them down…he was very'' 
''fierce looking when he had this cap on him…he had a pin in the front and he looked kinda'' 
''vicious with the cap on.  So it was a kind of a hot night, and it was so hot for Hughie,'' 
''Hughie took his cap off see.  So Frank looked over and he saw that Hughie didn’t have the cap'' 
''on, so he says “for God’s sake George, go over and tell Hughie to put the cap on.” So that’s'' 
''why I called it Hughie’s Cap.''
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''Mick:  When did this happen?''
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''Ed:  That happened around 1935…’36…in there.'' 
 <ref>Mick Moloney, “Medicine for Life: A study of a Folk Composer and His Music”, ’’’Keystone folklore: The Journal of the Pennsylvania Folklore Society’’’, vol. 20, Winter-Spring 1975, No. 1, p. 25.  </ref>
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<font color=red>''Printed sources''</font> : - Reavy ('''The Collected Compositions of Ed Reavy'''), No. 26, p. 27.
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