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FEARLESS BOYS, THE (Na Buacaillide Gan Eagal). AKA and see "Battle of Cremona (The)," "Health Unto His Leader," "Here's a health to our leader," "Our President," "Christmas Eve (1)," "My Ain Kind Dearie." Irish, March (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A marching tune under various titles.

Source for notated version: Chicago Police Sergeant James O'Neill, a fiddler originally from County Down and Francis O'Neill's collaborator on his early volumes [O'Neill].

Printed sources: O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 1811, p. 340.

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