Annotation:Flaming O'Flanigan's

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FLAMING O'FLANIGAN'S JIG. Irish, Jig. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABA. New York City researcher, writer and musician Don Meade finds the title to be taken from a 19th century song, with a chorus that goes:

Hooroo! Whack!
For that was the way with the Flaming O'Flannagans,
From the first illigant boys of that name;
For kissing and courting, and filling the can again,
Drinking and fighting like cocks of the game.
Hooroo! Whack!

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 67. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 98.

Recorded sources:

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