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BOYS FROM MULLINGAR (Na Buacaillide as Muileann-Cearr). AKA and see: "Drumdelgie," "If ever you marry, "Soldier's Cloak (The)." Irish, Air (6/8 time, "spirited"). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Irish researcher Conor Ward remarks:

O'Neill (1903) published this air entitled "The Boys from Mullingar," while it was published by editor William Bradbury Ryan (Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883) as "Soldier's Cloak'' ''(The)". The air was used for numerous songs such as "The Irish Jaunting Car". In the Alex Sutherland manuscript (c. 1930's, Carrigallen, Co. Leitrim) he includes the air with the words of a song "My Dear Irish Home Far Away". Collectors R.M. Levey and P.W. Joyce (1909) published the tune without titles. Another song [Scottish] that was written to this air was "Drumdelgie". Frank Quinn (1893-1964) of Drumlish, Co. Longford recorded this air as the second tune in a set entitled "The Emerald Medley - (Medley of Old Irish Airs)" in July 1926.

Conor also finds cognate melodies in the jig "Humors of Limerick (4) (The)," the slide "Port na gCaipíní," and the American march "Eden Quickstep."

Source for notated version: credited to Chicago Police Sergeant James O'Neill, a fiddler originally from County Down and Francis O'Neill's collaborator [O'Neill].

Printed sources: O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 589, p. 103.

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