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Theme code Index	1H5 51 32 16
Also known as	Bobby Casey
Composer/Core Source
Region	Ireland
Genre/Style	Irish
Meter/Rhythm	Jig/Quadrille
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	6/8
History
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Frank Roche
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Collection of Traditional Irish Music vol. 1
Tune and/or Page number	No. 188, p. 49
Year of publication/Date of MS	1912
Artist	Biography:Patrick Street
Title of recording	Street Life
Record label/Catalogue nr.
Year recorded
Media
Score ()

BOYS OF THE TOWN [2], THE. Irish, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The second part is similar in parts to "Boys of the Town [1]." Karen Tweed (1994) remarks the tune is a "firm favourite" at sessions in Leeds, England, in the early 1990's.

Sources for notated versions: fiddler John McKeown [Feldman & O'Doherty]; fiddler Sean Walker (Victor, New York) [Miller & Perron].

Recorded sources: Feldman & O'Doherty (The Northern Fiddler), 1978; p. 229. Mallinson (Enduring), 1995; No. 49, p. 21. Miller & Perron (Traditional Irish Fiddle Music), 1977; vol. 2, No. 8. Miller & Perron (Traditional Irish Fiddle Music, 2nd Edition), 2006; p. 15. Mulvihill (1st Collection), 1986; No. 23, p. 69. Peoples (50 Irish Fiddle Tunes), Roche Collection, 1912; vol. I, p. 49, #118. Taylor (Traditional Irish Music: Karen Tweed's Irish Choice), 1994; p. 6.

Recorded sources: Patrick Street - "Street Life." See also listings at: Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index [1], Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [2]

X:1
T:The Boys of the Town [2]
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Jig
K:G
ged B2A | BGE G2A | ~B3 ABA | GBd e2d |ged B2A | 
BGE G2A | ~B3 AGA | BGF G3 :||def gfg | eaa eaa | 
bag e2d | efg efg |def gfg | afd efg | edB AGA | BGF G3 :||

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-''Recorded sources:''  Feldman & O'Doherty (The Northern Fiddler), 1978; p. 229. Mallinson (Enduring), 1995; No. 49, p. 21. Miller & Perron (Traditional Irish Fiddle Music), 1977; vol. 2, No. 8. Miller & Perron (Traditional Irish Fiddle Music, 2nd Edition), 2006; p. 15. Mulvihill (1st Collection), 1986; No. 23, p. 69. Peoples (50 Irish Fiddle Tunes), Roche Collection, 1982; vol. I, p. 49, #118. Taylor ('''Traditional Irish Music: Karen Tweed's Irish Choice'''), 1994; p. 6.
+''Recorded sources:''  Feldman & O'Doherty ('''The Northern Fiddler'''), 1978; p. 229. Mallinson ('''Enduring'''), 1995; No. 49, p. 21. Miller & Perron ('''Traditional Irish Fiddle Music'''), 1977; vol. 2, No. 8. Miller & Perron ('''Traditional Irish Fiddle Music''', 2nd Edition), 2006; p. 15. Mulvihill (1st Collection), 1986; No. 23, p. 69. Peoples ('''50 Irish Fiddle Tunes'''), '''Roche Collection''', 1912; vol. I, p. 49, #118. Taylor ('''Traditional Irish Music: Karen Tweed's Irish Choice'''), 1994; p. 6.
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