Annotation:Many's a Wild Night

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MANY'S A WILD NIGHT. Irish, Polka. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABCD. The tune comes from the itinerant fiddler and schoolmaster from Sliabh Luachra (the Cork/Kerry border region), Pádraig O'Keeffe [1] (1887-1963). A four-part version of the tune is Johnny O'Leary's "Pa Keane's."

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Recorded sources: Gael Linn CEF 176, Jackie Daly - "Many's a Wild Night" (1995. According to Paul de Grae, Daly had the tune from a collection of tunes written out by Padraig O'Keeffe for his fiddle pupil Paddy O'Connell, of Cordal, County Kerry). Ossian OSSCD 114, Sliabh Notes - "Gleanntán" (1999).

See also listing at:
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [2]