BAREFOOT BOY, THE ("Bouchaleen Oge", "Buachaillín Óg", or "An Buacaill Lomcosac"). Irish, Double Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB' (O'Neill/Krassen, 1001 & 1850): AAB (O'Neill/1915). Compare the first strain of "The Barefoot Boy" with the first strain of O'Neill's first setting of "Strop the Razor (1)."Chicago's Irish Music Club, c. 1903. James Kerwin is the right-hand figure reclining on the floor in the picture, holding his flute.
Additional notes Source for notated version : - James Kerwin [O'Neill]. O'Neill wrote of Kerwin in his Irish Folk Music: A Fascinating Hobby (1913, pp. 43-44):
No words of mine could do justice to Sergeant Kerwin—the genial, hospitable "Jim" Kerwin, not asa fluter and a lover of the music of his ancestors, but as a host at his magnificent privateresidence on Wabash Avenue [Chicago]. On his invitation and that of his equally hospitable andcharming wife, a select company, attracted and united by a common hobby, met monthly on Sundayafternoons at his house for years.
Printed sources : - O'Neill (O'Neill's Irish Music), 1915; No. 175, p. 96. O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 66. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 1074, p. 202. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 276, p. 60.
