Cock Your Pistol Charlie (2)

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Theme code Index	1554 747L2
Also known as	Cock Your Pistol Charley (2)
Composer/Core Source
Region	Ireland
Genre/Style	Irish
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece, Jig/Quadrille
Key/Tonic of	E
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Aeolian (minor)
Time signature	6/8
History
Structure	AAB
Editor/Compiler	P.W. Joyce
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Old Irish Folk Music and Songs
Tune and/or Page number	No. 73, pp. 39-40
Year of publication/Date of MS	1909
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COCK YOUR PISTOL CHARLEY/CHARLIE [2]f. Irish, Single Jig and Song Air. E Dorian (Roche): E Minor (Emmerson, Joyce). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Joyce): AABB (Emmerson, Roche). Learned by Joyce in his boyhood in Co. Limerick, c. 1845. See also "Captain Murray's Reel," "Gooseberry Blossoms," "Polly's Reel," "The Tap House," "The Tap Room," "Sweet Molly [4]," "The Mountain Lark [7]," "The Youngest Daughter [1]," "Hopetoun House," "B(h)aintreach na Radaireacht."

Printed sources: Emmerson (Rantin' Pipe and Tremblin' String), 1971; No. 70, p. 157. Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Song), 1909; No. 73, pp. 39-40. Roche Collection, 1913; vol. 2, p. 21, No. 243.

X:1
T:Cocky Your Pistol, Charlie [2]
M:6/8
L:1/8
S:Joyce - Old Irish Folk Music and Songs  (1909)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:Emin
E2B B2A|B2G A2F|d2B A2F|D2E F2D|
E2B B2A|B2G A2F|d2B A2F|E3 E3:|
B2e e2f|g2e f2d|B2d A2F|D2E F2D|
E2e e2f|g2e f2d|B2d A2F|E3 E3|
B2e e2f|g2e f2d|B2d A2F|D2E F2D|
EFE G2A|Bcd e2f|d2B A2F|E3 E3||