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FAGAN. AKA - "Fagin's Holiday." Irish, Air (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (Clinton): AABB (Kerr). The tune was included in a section of Kerr's volume entitled Irish Jigs for Quadrilles and Country Dances. William Bradbury Ryan printed the tune as "Fagin's Holiday" in his Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Clinton (Gems of Ireland: 200 Airs), 1841; No. 140, p. 71. P.M. Haverty (One Hundred Irish Airs vol. 2), 1858; No. 137, p. 63. Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 1), c. 1880's; No. 31, p. 38. Levey (First Collection of the Dance Music of Ireland), 1858; No. 62, p. 25.

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