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Tune Annotations:	'''AS I WENT OUT UPON THE ICE''' (Ag Dul amach ar an Leac Oighir dom). AKA and see "[[Glin Cottage Polka (2) (The)]]," "[[Johnny O'Leary's (1)]]," "[[Tanglony]]." Irish, Polka (2/4 time). Ireland, Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Editors Moylan and Breathnach suggest a connection with the comic song "Taglioni," which goes: <blockquote> ''As I went out upon the ice,''<br> ''The ice being rough and stony,''<br> ''The ice it broke and down I went''<br> ''And wet my tanlee ownee.''<br> </blockquote> or: <blockquote> ''One day as I went out to skate,''<br> ''The ice was rough and stony;''<br> ''And the ice it bent so in I went''<br> ''And wet my Taglioni.''<br> </blockquote> Moylan, however, notes that all versions of the song he heard were sung to slide tunes, not polkas. The tune is usually played with "[[Jimmy Doyle's Polka (1)]]" in Sliabh Luachra tradition. See also the related "[[Dálaigh's Polka]]." Fr. John Quinn categorizes "As I went out upon the Ice" as a member of the large and varied "[[Haughs of Cromdale (The)]]" tune family and derivatives. See note for "[[annotation:Haughs of Cromdale (The)\|Haughs of Cromdale]]" for more.
Source for notated version:	fiddler Denis Murphy, 1966 (Gneeveguilla, Co. Kerry, Ireland) [Breathnach]; accordion player Johnny O'Leary (Sliabh Luachra region), recorded in recital at Na Píobairí Uilleann, February, 1981 [Moylan].
Printed sources:	Beisswenger ('''Irish Fiddle Music from Counties Cork and Kerry'''), 2012; p. 12. Breathnach ('''Ceol Rince na hÉireann, vol. 2'''), 1976; No. 122, p. 65. Breathnach ('''Ceol: A Journal of Irish Music'''), vol. 5, no. 1, 1981; 15e. Conway ('''Ireland's Best Polkas/Slides'''), 1999; No. 6. Mallinson ('''101 Polkas'''), 1997; No. 19, p. 8. Moylan ('''Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra'''), 1994; No. 52, p. 31.
Recorded sources:	RTE CD174, "The Sliabh Luachra Fiddle Master Padraig O'Keeffe" (1995. Recorded 1948-49, played in medley along with "Campdown/[[Camptown Races (2)]]," "[[Tom Billy's Polka (1)]]" and "[[Jimmy Doyle's Polka (1)]]").
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