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Tune Annotations:	'''PHIL THE FLUT(H)ER'S BALL.''' Irish, Reel and Air. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B, AA'B'. Words and music of this tune were composed by the once well-known popular-song writer Percy French [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_French] (1854–1920), who began songwriting when studying Engineering at Trinity College, Dublin. "Phil the Fluter's Ball" was written in his post-college years when he worked as a engineer in County Cavan, before he became a full-time songwriter and entertainer. The song and tune (which bears a great resemblance to that of [[Kitty Got a Clinking Coming from the Races (2)]]) became popular through French's performances in the 1880's and quickly entered British Isles folk tradition. Phil the Fluther was a real-life character who rented a small flat in Leitrim. When times were hard and he was pressed for rent he would hold a pay-at-the-door rent party to raise the needed sum; these parties became legendary and inspired the tune. The first verse and chorus go: [[File:percyfrench.jpg\|300px\|thumb\|right\|Percy French]] <blockquote> ''Have you heard of Phil the Fluther, of the town of Ballymuck?''<br> ''The times were going hard with him, in fact the man was broke.''<br> ''So he just sent an invitation to his neighbours, one an all''<br> ''As to how he'd like their company that evening at a ball.''<br> ''And when writin' out he was careful to suggest to them,''<br> ''That if they found a hat of his convanient to the dure,''<br> ''The more they put in, whenever he requested them''<br> ''The better would the music be for battherin' the flure.''<br> <br> ''With the toot of the flute,''<br> ''And the twiddle of the fiddle, O;''<br> ''Hopping in the middle, like a herrin' on the griddle, O.''<br> ''Up! down, hands aroun', Crossing to the wall.''<br> ''Oh! Hadn't we the gaiety at Phil the Fluther's Ball.''<br> </blockquote> See also William Hargreaves' "[[Delaney's Donkey]]," which uses the same air as "Phil the Fluther's Ball."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources:	Bayard ('''Dance to the Fiddle'''), 1981; No. 250, pp. 213–214 (collected as a fife march called "The Fluter's Ball"). Carlin ('''Master Collection'''), 1984; No. 230, p. 134. '''Sing Out''', pp. 22–23.
Recorded sources:	His Master's Voice B.9123 (78 RPM), Webster Booth. Oldtime Records OTR 104 & 105, "The Pure Genius of Peter Conlon: 78 RPM recordings from 1917–1929" (2012).
See also listing at:	Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [https://www.irishtune.info/tune/6193/]<br> Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/p04.htm#Phithflj]<br>

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