Annotation:Rattle the Brogues
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RATTLE THE BROGUES. Irish, Polka (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title means "strike the shoes", presumably a referencing to dancing. The tune was described by Dr. Hudson in The Dublin Magazine as a 'dance tune' ("it will do for a dance"), but was not otherwise identified. It may have been a polka, although that dance was just coming into vogue in Britain and Ireland from the Continent (having been introduced in Paris in 1840).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: The Dublin Magazine, January, 1843; No. 4.
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