Annotation:Sonny Sweeney's

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X:1 T:Sonny Sweeney's M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Polka K:G D>E G>A|Bd BG/A/|BA/B/ d>B|AG E/F/G/E/|D>E G>A|Bd BG/A/| BA/B/ B>A|G2 G2:||g2 e/f/g/e/|dB (3d/e/d/ B/A/|G>B AB|AG EG| g>f e/f/g/e/|dB (3d/e/d/ B/A/|G>B AB|AG G2|g2 e/f/g/e/|dB d>B| G>B AB|AG E/F/G/E/|D>E G>A|Bd BG/A/|BA/B/ B>A|G2G2||



SONNY SWEENEY'S. AKA and see “Glencollins Polka (The).” Irish, Polka (2/4 time). Ireland, Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA’B. Accordion player Johnny O'Leary identified Sweeney as a carpenter, “a small little man that used to play a fiddle along with Denis Murphy.”


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - accordion player Johnny O’Leary (Sliabh Luachra region) [Moylan].

Printed sources : - Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music), 2nd Edition, 2006; p. 135. Moylan (Johnny O’Leary of Sliabh Luachra), 1994; No. 70, p. 40.

Recorded sources : - Topic 12T357, Johnny O’Leary - “Music for the Set” (1977).

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



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