Annotation:Prime's Hornpipe

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PRIME'S HORNPIPE. AKA and see "Waterford Hornpipe," "O'Dwyer's Hornpipe (1)," "Muddy Water (1)," "Durrock's Hornpipe." Irish, Hornpipe. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. Francis O'Neill, the Chicago police chief and collector, knew the tune (as "O'Dwyer's") from his boyhood days in the latter 1800's Co. Cork. Patrick Weston Joyce [1] (1827-1914) himself was from Limerick, raised in the 1830's and '40's.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 63, p. 34.

Recorded sources:

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