Touch Me If You Dare (1)

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Also known as	You Rogue You Dar'n't Meddle Me
Composer/Core Source
Region	Ireland
Genre/Style	Irish
Meter/Rhythm	Reel (single/double)
Key/Tonic of	A
Accidental
Mode	Dorian
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History
Structure	AAB
Editor/Compiler	Francis O'Neill
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies
Tune and/or Page number	1388/258
Year of publication/Date of MS	1979
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TOUCH ME IF YOU DARE [1] (Buin Liom Ma's B-Fearr Leat). AKA and see "You Rogue, You Daren't Meddle Me." Irish, Reel. A Dorian, Standard. AAB. Alan Jabbour says the tune is from a large tune family that includes Petrie’s “Take Her Out and Air Her (3) Take Her Out and Air Her (3)" O’Neill’s “Kit O’Mahony’s Hornpipe Kit O’Mahony’s Hornpipe,” Joyce’s “Miss Redmond’s Hornpipe Miss Redmond’s Hornpipe” and Ford’s “Gilderoy (2) Gilderoy (2).” American fiddler Henry Reed had a variant (called simply “British Field March”) from an elderly fiddler and fife player named Quince Dillon, and claimed it had been played by the British to retreat in the Battle of New Orleans. See also the related reel “Old Torn Petticoat Old Torn Petticoat.” Source for notated version: Chicago Police Sergeant James O’Neill, a fiddler originally from County Down and Francis O’Neill’s collaborator [O’Neill]. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1979; No. 1388, pg. 258. Roche Collection, 1982, vol. 3; No. 85, pg. 26.

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R:Reel
S:O’Neill – Music of Ireland (1903), No. 1388
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:A Minor
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