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MORE POWER TO YOUR ELBOW (Comacds tuile le do uilleann). AKA and see "Coalminer's Reel (The)." Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (O'Neill/1850 & 1001): AA'B (O'Neill/Krassen). See also Ryan's/Cole's reel "Farrell O'Gara's Favorite" for a version in the key of 'A' major, and, in the same volumes, "Pretty Jane's Reel" and "Stick it in the Ashes." "Macroom Lasses" is also a related reel.

Martin O'Reilly

Source for notated version: "O'Reilly" [O'Neill]. O'Neill's source may have been blind Galway piper Martin O'Reilly, whom O'Neill sketched for his Irish Minstrels and Musicians (1913, pp. 239-240, picture on p. 241). O'Reilly was a stand-out performer at the Belfast Harp Festival of 1903, and the annual Feis in 1901, but his notoriety was short lived and he died in the Gort poorhouse some few years later.

Printed sources: O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 146. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 1477, p. 273. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 705, p. 124.

Recorded sources:

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



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