Annotation:Our Boys (2)

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OUR BOYS [2]. AKA and see "Connolly's Ale," "Merry Men Home from the Grave," "Merry Men Home from the War." American (?), Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. See note for "Annotation:Merry Men Home from the Grave" for discussion. William Bradbury Ryan printed the tune twice in his 1883 collection: first as "Connolly's Ale," and later as "Our Boys (2)."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 71. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 102.

Recorded sources:

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