Annotation:Come Up in the Room I Want You

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COME UP IN THE ROOM I WANT YOU. AKA and see "Ballina Lass," "Old Maids of Galway (2) (The)." Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The tune is particularly associated with the playing of fiddler Johnny Henry of Doocastle, on the Mayo-Sligo border. Paul de Grae says the late north Kerry fiddler Paddy O'Sullivan had a similarly titled tune he called "Into the Room I Want You," although his was a version of "Mayo Lasses (The)."

Source for notated version: fiddler Johnny Henry (b. 1922, Cloonlairn, Doocastle, Co. Sligo) [Flaherty].

Printed sources: Flaherty (Trip to Sligo), 1990; p. 143.

Recorded sources: Cló Iar Chonnachta CICD 165, John Wynne & John McEvoy - "Pride of the West" (2007).

See also listing at:
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]

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