Annotation:Drunken Gauger (4)
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DRUNKEN GAUGER [4], THE. AKA and see "Drunken Ganger's (The)," "Ganger (2) (The)," "Steampacket (2) (The)." Irish, Slip Jig (9/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune is contained in vol. 2 (p. 157) of the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper biography:James Goodman. Elias Howe's "Drunken Ganger's (The)" is a version of the tune, with the parts reversed.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Kennedy (Fiddler's Tune-Book: Slip Jigs and Waltzes), 1999; No. 19, p. 6.
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