Buddy Furey's Polka

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Theme code Index	3142 3125L
Also known as	Buddy Fury's Polka, Polca Bhodaí Uí Fhoirréidh
Composer/Core Source
Region	Ireland
Genre/Style	Irish
Meter/Rhythm	Polka
Key/Tonic of	A
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Mixolydian
Time signature	2/4
History
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Brendan Breathnach
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Ceol Rinnce na h-Éirreann vol. 3
Tune and/or Page number	No. 71, p. 35
Year of publication/Date of MS	1985
Artist	Biography:Martin Mulvihill
Title of recording	Martin Mulvihill
Record label/Catalogue nr.	Green Linnet Records SIF 1012
Year recorded	1978
Media
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BUDDY FUREY'S/FURY'S POLKA (Polca Bhodaí Uí Fhoirréidh). Irish, Polka. A Mixolydian (Breathnach): A Major (Black, Mulvihill). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Buddy Fury was a musician from County Limerick; the title is Mulvihill's, from the first musician he heard play the tune.

Source for notated version: the late fiddler Martin Mulvihill (Bronx, New York) [Black, Breathnach].

Printed sources: Black (Music's the Very Best Thing), 1996; No. 328, p. 175. Breathnach (CRE III), 1985; No. 71, p. 35. Mulvihill (1st Collection), 1986; No. 7, p. 113 (appears as "Buddy Fury's Polka").

Recorded source: Green Linnet Records SIF 1012, "Martin Mulvihill" (1978).

X:1
T: Buddy Furey's
S: M. Mulvihill
Q: 250
R: polka
Z:Transcribed by Bill Black
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
K: A
e/d/ | cA A/B/c/A/ | dB Be/d/ | cA A/B/c/A/ | BE Ee/d/ |
cA A/B/c/A/ | dB Be/d/ | cA/c/ BE | A2 A :|
B | ce ee | f>g a/f/e/d/ | ce ec | B>c d/c/B/A/ |
ce ee | f>g a/f/e/d/ | cA/c/ BE | A2 A :||