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LONDONBRIDGE HONRPIPE, THE. AKA and see "City Life," "O'Keeffe's Hornpipe (2)," "Showman's Fancy," "Violetta Hornpipe." Irish, Hornpipe. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB. A different tune than "London Bridge (1)/London Bridge (2) or the "London Bridge Polka."

Source for notated version: accordion player Johnny O'Leary (Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border) [Moylan].

Printed sources: Moylan (Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra), 1994; No. 106, p. 62.

Recorded sources: Gael-Linn CEF132, Johnny O'Leary - "An Calmfhear/The Trooper" (1989. Appears as second of "O'Keeffe's Hornpipes," named for fiddler Padraig O'Keeffe, from whom O'Leary learned the tune).




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