Annotation:Paddy Miles' Hornpipe

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PADDY MILES' HORNPIPE. American, Hornpipe. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. 'Paddy Miles' was a character in mid-19th century stage plays performed in Boston, such as the farce Paddy Miles's Boy and Paddy Miles, the Limerick Boy. In 1867-68 Jerry Cohan, father of the famous vaudevillian George M. Cohen, performed in minstrel shows as an end man and comedian with the Morris Brothers Minstrels, of Boston. He introduced Irish dialect in his jokes and songs, and portrayed “The Dancing Professor,” “The Irish Dancing Master” and “Paddy Miles’ Boy.”

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: O'Flannagan (The Hibernia Collection), 1860; p. 32.

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