Annotation:Captain Paddy
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CAPTAIN PADDY. Irish, Air (whole time). A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune called "Captain Paddy" in Dublin music publisher Smollet Holden's Collection of the Most Esteem'd Old Irish Melodies, vol. 2 (c. 1805; p. 29) is a version of "Captain O'Kane" and not the tune printed by Clinton and Levey.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Clinton (Gems of Ireland: 200 Airs), 1841; No. 172. Levey (First Collection of the Dance Music of Ireland), 1858; No. 79, p. 31.
Recorded sources: