Annotation:Leinster Highroad (The)

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LEINSTER HIGHROAD, THE. AKA and see "Cuddle in a Boasie," "High Road to Linton," "High Way to Linton," "Highway to Linton," "Jenny's Gone to Linton," "Kitty Got a Clinking Coming from the Races (2)." Irish, Reel. D Major: G Major (Goodman). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Leinster was one of the five old provinces, once rival kingdoms, of Ireland, named after an ancient tribe of people called the Laigin. The tune appears in the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper Canon biography:James Goodman under the title “Linster Highroad (The).”

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

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