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DUCKS DIE ON CHRISTMAS DAY, THE (Básaítear na Lachain Lá Nollag). Irish, Single Jig (12/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Breathnach says the tune is a single jig for a quadrille, and that Doolin, County Clare, tin whistle player Micho Russell had a vesion which he called a 'Cudreel' (i.e. quadrille).

Source for notated version: Bernard Bogue (County Monaghan and Tyrone) [Breathnach].

Printed sources: Breathnach (CRÉ IV), 1996; No. 68, p. 33.

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