Annotation:Drunken Ganger's (The)

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DRUNKEN GANGER'S, THE. AKA and see "Swaggering Jig (1) (The)." Irish, Slip Jig (9/8 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The title probably a corruption of "Drunken Gauger", which is the name of 6/8 time jig tunes, and "Drunken Gauger (4)" is a cognate tune, with the parts reversed. .

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 63. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 94.

Recorded sources: Gráinne Murphy GRA010, Gráinne Murphy - "Short Stories" (2010).

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