Annotation:Dan Sweeney's
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DAN SWEENEY'S. AKA and see "Johnny Leary's Polka (1)," "Munster Bank (1) (The)," "Sod We Took to School (The)," "Tarrant's (3)." Irish, Polka. Ireland, Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. See also the related "Art O'Keeffe's Polka (1)."
Source for notated version: accordion player Dan Sweeney (Tuar Mor) via accordion player Johnny O'Leary (Sliabh Luachra region, Kerry), recorded in concert at Na Píobairí Uilleann, February, 1981 [Moylan]; whistle player Art O'Keeffe [Breathnach].
Printed sources: Breathnach (CRÉ II), 1976; No. 127 (appears as untitled polka). Moylan (Johnny O'Leary), 1994; No. 48, pg. 29.
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