Annotation:Old Billy Brocker's (The)

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OLD BILLY BROCKER'S, THE. Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B. The title employs the convention of using the descriptor "old" to denote a tune that is similar but different than one with a similar title and melody. Here, "Old Billy Brocker" is different in the second part to "Billy Brocker."

Source for notated version: New Jersey flute player Mike Rafferty, born in Ballinakill, Co. Galway, in 1926 [Harker].

Printed sources: Harker (300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty), 2005; No. 46, p. 15.

Recorded sources:

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