Annotation:Dan O'Keeffe's Slide (1)

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X:1 T:Danny Ab's (1) T:Dan O'Keeffe's Slide [1] D:"Kerry Fiddles", Padraig O'Keeffe, Denis Murphy & Julia Clifford D:"The Star Above The Garter", Denis Murphy & Julia Clifford B:Ceol Rince na hÉireann III, no. 45 R:slide M:12/8 L:1/8 Z:Transcribed by Paul de Grae K:G GA ||: B2 B {d}cBc d2 d d2 e | dBG dBG ABc AGA | B2 B {d}cBc {de}d2 B d2 g |1 fed cBA G3 {Bc}B2 A :||2 fed cBA G3 GBd || |: g2 d B2 g f2 d B c2 | ded c2 A ~d3 B2 d | g2 d B2 g f2 d B<cB | 1 ABc def {a}g3 {a }g2 f :|| 2 ABc def g3 g2 z ||

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DAN O'KEEFFE'S SLIDE [1] (Sleamhnán Dhónaill Uí Chaoimh). AKA and see "Danny Ab's Slide [1]." Irish, Slide (12/8 time). Ireland, Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border. G Major (Breathnach, Cranitch, Mallinson): D Major (Moylan). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Cranitch, Mallinson, Moylan): AA'BB' (Breathnach). The tune was recorded Seamus Ennis in 1952, from the playing of Denis Murphy and Julia Clifford, who called it "Danny Ab's," their source for the tune(s). There is a suggestion the tune was named for piper Dan O'Keefe (1821-1899), an emigrant to the United States in 1847, but this seems rather unlikely. The tune was much more likely named for Dan O'Keeffe of Tureen Cahill, near Lisheen, Sliabh Luachra, who lived near the house of Tom Billy Murphy and his children, fiddler Denis Murphy and Julia Clifford. O'Keeffe was a flute and tin whistle player and also lilted and whistled. He was taught to play by his mother, perhaps one of Tom Billy Murphy's students.

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