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I WON’T MARRY HER. Irish, Polka. Ireland, Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA’BB’. Source O’Leary provided this partial phrase which is sung to the tune:

I won’t marry her, I won’t marry her,
That’s the reason I says I won’t marry her.

He often paired the tune with "Cobbler (3) (The),” also learned from influential Sliabh Luachara musician Din Tarrant.

Source for notated version: Din Tarrant via accordion player Johnny O’Leary (Sliabh Luachra region) [Moylan].

Printed sources: Moylan (Johnny O’Leary), 1994; No. 81, p. 46. Roche (Collection of Traditional Irish Music, vol. 2), 1913; No. 304.

Recorded sources: Topic 12T357, Johnny O’Leary - “Music for the Set” (1977. Appears as second tune of “Din Tarrant’s”).




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