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JOHNNY MICKEY'S POLKA. AKA - "Johnny Mickey Barry's." AKA and see "Polca an Dreoilín," "Tourniore Lasses," "Wren (1) (Polka) (The)." Irish, Polka (2/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. David Taylor (1992) remarks that the tune was named after Johnny Mickey Barry (?-1981), a renowned concertina player from Toureendarby, near Newmarket, in the Sliabh Luachra region. He was a student of Tom Billy Murphy's The polka was recorded in a set with the tune "Salmon Tails" by the Oyster Band and has occasionally been called "Salmon Tailing up the River (2)" as a result.

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Connie O'Connell (County Cork) [Beisswenger].

Printed sources : - Beisswenger (Irish Fiddle Music from Counties Cork and Kerry), 2012; p. 109. Mallinson (100 Irish Polkas), 1997; No. 37, p. 14 (appears as "Johnny Mickey Barry's"). Taylor (Through the Half-door), 1992; No. 70, p. 50.

Recorded sources : - Gael-Linn CEF 057, "Séamus Creagh & Jackei Daly" (1977).

See also listing at :
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]
Hear Séamus Creagh and Jackey Daly's recording at Soundcloud [2]
See a photograph of Johnny Mickey Barry at the "Music of Sliabh Luachra" website [3]

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 Hear Séamus Creagh and Jackey Daly's recording at Soundcloud [https://soundcloud.com/jackiedaly/sets/jackie-daly-seamus-creagh]<br>
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