Annotation:I'm a Silly Old Man
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I'M A SILLY OLD MAN (Is Seanduine Saob Me). AKA and see "Bunch of Currents (1)," "Bunch of Roses (3)," "Christmas Comes but Once a Year," "I've got one daughter to marry," "Little Bogtrotter," "Shady Lane," "Spring in the Air." Irish, Single Jig. G Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Irish violinist R.M. Levey's "Bunch of Currents (1)" is a major mode setting of the tunej, and appears in his first collection of 1858.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 404, p. 80.
Recorded sources:
See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [2]