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DIN TARRANT'S [6]. AKA and see "Jim Keeffe's Polka (4)," "O'Keeffe's Polka (1)," "Mert Plunkett's." Irish, Polka. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Nigel Gatherer points out the tune is well-known in Scotland as "Wha Wad'na Fecht for Charlie" and "Wha Saw the Forty Twa?"/Wha' saw the Forty Second", and as the latter title, "Grand March" and "March Past" by English morris dancers (the latter title appears in Lionel Bacon's Morris Ring).

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - accordion player Johnny O'Leary (Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border) [Moylan].

Printed sources : - Moylan (Johnny O'Leary of Slibh Luachra), 1994; No. 299, pp. 172-173. Taylor (Music for the Sets: Blue Book), 1995; p. 6 (appears as "Din Tarrant's No. 5").

Recorded sources: -

See also listing at:
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]

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