Annotation:Drunken Tinker (The)
Tune properties and standard notation
DRUNKEN TINKER, THE. AKA and see "Boreen Reel (The)." Irish, Reel. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Occasionally called "Gillespie's Reel (2)", from the 1939 recording made in New York by Hugh Gillespie (1906 - 1986, born in Ballybofey, Co. Donegal).
Source for notated version: Brendan Mulvihill (Baltimore, MD) [Mulvihill].
Printed sources: Mulvihill (1st Collection), 1986; No. 197, p. 53.
Recorded sources: Green Linnet BLCD 3009, Kevin Burke - "If the Cap Fits" (1978).
See also listing at:
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]