Annotation:Last Night's Fun (1)
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LAST NIGHT'S FUN [1]. AKA and see "Farrell O'Gara's Favorite Reel," "Last Night in Leadville," "Macroom Lasses (The)," "Old Joe Sife's Reel," "Pretty Jane's," "Stick it in the Ashes." Irish, Reel. A Major (Cole, Ryan): G Major (Kerr). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Kerr): AABB (Cole, Ryan). See also "Old Sport" for a similar melody. A different "Last Night's Fun" than is usually played by that title in modern Irish sessions. The tune is a version of Francis O'Neill's "Macroom Lasses," and better-known under that title. County Sligo fiddle great Michael Coleman recorded it as a fling called the "Killarney Wonder."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 6. Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 2), c. 1880's; No. 225, p. 25. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 28.
Recorded sources:
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