Annotation:Sailing back of Whiddy
X:1 % T:Sailing back of Whiddy B:O'Neill's 56 M:C L:1/8 Z:1999 by John Chambers <jc@trillian.mit.edu> Q:"With expression" N:"Collected by J.O'Neill" K:C C>DE>F G>E C2 | E>FG>c d>c B<G | e>dc>B A>G c2 | C>DE>F G>F E<D | | C>DE>F G>E C2 | E>FG>c d>c B<G | e>dc>B A>G c2 | C>DE>F G>E D<C || || C>D E<G D>F E<C | E<F G<c d>c B<G | e>d c>B AG Hc>c | C>D E>G D>F E<C ||
SAILING BACK OF WHIDDY (Ag seolad taob le Faoit). Irish, Air (4/4 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Composed by fiddler James O’Neill (b. 1863, originally from County Down & Belfast), who, while a sergeant on the Chicago police force in the first decade of the twentieth century, collaborated with Captain Frances O’Neill on the seminal compendium Music of Ireland (1903).