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GO TO THE DEVIL AND SHAKE YOURSELF [3]. AKA and see "Get Up Old Woman and Shake Yourself," "Irish Devil (The)," "Tickle Her Leg (with the Barley Straw)." Irish, English; Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Unrelated to "Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself (1)." The jig appears in the 1840 music manuscript collection of multi-instrumentalist musician John Rook of Waverton, Cumbria.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Ford (Traditional Music in America), 1940; p. 72. P.M. Haverty (One Hundred Irish Airs vol. 2), 1859; No. 113, p. 52. Hughes (Gems from the Emerald Isle), c. 1860's; No. 52, p. 13. Levey (First Collection of the Dance Music of Ireland), 1858; No. 13, p. 6.

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