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PATRICK’S POT. AKA and see “Carrickfergus (3).” Irish, Jig. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. St. Patrick’s Pot was a never-emptying can; popularly, it was the ever-filled tumbler of spirits. The tune appears in P.M. Haverty’s One Hundred Irish Airs, vol. 2 (New York, 1859). Cape Breton fiddle Donald MacLellan recorded the jig on 78 RPM disc as “Carrickfergus.”

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Burchenal (Rinnci na h-Éireann), 1925; p. 133.

Recorded sources:

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