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DANCE BY THE OLD SALLY TREE, THE. AKA and see "Beautiful Mary McKeon/Molly McKeon." Irish, Air (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Sally = willow, from the Latin salyx.

Source for notated version: Collected by Joyce from the singing of his aunt, Mrs. Mary MacSweeny of Cork, and of Glenosheen Co. Limerick (1844-1855).

Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 169, p. 85.

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