Annotation:Sprig of Shillelagh (3) (The)
X: 1 T:Sprig of Shillelagh [3] (polka), The C:file ID mally/58sprig B:Mally.HIP.046 Q:120 R:polka L:1/8 M:2/4 K:G z|d2 ed/c/|BG G/F/G|AF F/E/F|BG G/F/G|d2 ed/c/|BG G/F/G|AF c>A|AG G :| z|Bd g>g|fe-e2|A/A/A fe|d3d|ed fe|f2 ed|B4-|B2 Gz| Bd g>g|fe-e2|A/A/A fe|d3d|ef gd/e/|fe d/e/d/c/|BA G2-|G4 |]
SPRIG OF SHILLELAGH [3], THE. Irish, Polka (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB’. The Flanagan brothers played the tune with a ‘B’ part of only fourteen bars rather than the usual sixteen (Dave Mallinson added the extra bars in the setting he prints). The first strain is a duple time setting of the first strain of the German folk song "Ach du lieber Augustine" (AKA and see "Buy a Broom Waltz").
