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UP AND DOWN THE STAIRS (Suas agus Síos an Staighre). Irish, Slide (12/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Jackie Small, editor of CRÉ V, says this tune “is an example of the great store of old Leinster single jigs that (Kilmurry) had.”

Source for notated version: whistle player and piper Joe Kilmurry (Baile na Carraige, County Westmeath) [Breathnach].

Printed sources: Breathnach (CRÉ V), 1999; No. 70, p. 36.

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