Annotation:High Road to Dublin (1) (The)

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HIGH ROAD TO DUBLIN [1], THE. AKA and see "Boy in the Basket (The)," "Skipper's Wedding (The)," "Way to Dublin (The)." Irish, Slip Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. An almost identical setting is in Joyce (1909) under the title "The Way to Dublin." Uilleann piper and Anglican cleric James Goodman (ii, p. 173, mid-19th century) gives it as "Boy in the Basket (The)" in his manuscript collection.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Roche (Collection of Irish Traditional Music, vol. 2), 1912; No. 267, p. 28.

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