Annotation:Joe Conway's
Tune properties and standard notation
JOE CONWAY'S. AKA and see "Tenpenny Bit (2) (The)," "Ducks and the Oats (The)," "New Tenpenny (The)." Irish, Jig. Ireland, Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB. Source Johnny O'Leary identified Joe Conway as a button accordion player (whose instrument was "a small little box with the double rows, like the Black Dot") from "over between Rathmore and Millstreet," and who died in 1992 at the age of 86 or 87.
Source for notated version: accordion player Johnny O'Leary (Sliabh Luachra, Kerry), recorded at a recital at Na Piobairi Uilleann, February, 1981 [Moylan].
Printed sources: Moylan (Johnny O'Leary), 1994; No. 26, pp. 16-17.
Recorded sources: Topic 12T311, Joe and Julia Clifford - "Humours of Lisheen" (The Ducks and the Oats).