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BAPTIST JOHNSTON (Pleraca Ionston). AKA - "Planxty Baptist Johnston." Irish, Air or Planxty (6/8 time, "lively"). D Major (O'Neill): C Major (Complete Collection). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (O'Neill): AABB (Complete Collection). Composed by blind Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738). The tune was originally titled “Baptist Johnson” and refers to Baptist Johnston of Tully, County Monaghan, a High Sheriff of his county in 1728 and MP for the borough of Monaghan between 1747 and 1753.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Complete Collection of O'Carolan's Irish Tunes, 1984; No. 62, pp. 56-57. O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 234. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 656, p. 118.

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