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PADDYS EVERMORE. Irish, Air (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. This mention of the air appeared in The Irish Magazine, and monthly asylum for neglected biography ():

We hear that an application is to be made from a certain quarter to government, to have three Irish pipers, taken in Flushing, hanged in College-green for their treasonable practices. These musical ruffians attended every sortie made by their countrymen, and by their manner of playing "Erin go Bragh" and "Paddys evermore", during every conflict lent such a degree of enthusiasm to the fellows in arms, that the loss of his Majesty's troops was very considerable. One of these rascally pipers is a Kildare man, and to increase his guilt is actually blind, the fellow's name is Soughan, he lost a leg in Hacketstown, and escaped to the Continent in the yera 1799. Mr. Peter Finerty recognized one of the pipers who turns out to be his uncle. Peter, with becoming patriotism and filial piety acknowledged his relation and has recommended his case to Sir Home Popham.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 868, p. 216.

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