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X:1 T:Touch Me if You Dare (2) L:1/8 M:C| R:Reel B:O'Neill's Music of Ireland. 1850 Melodies, 1903, p. 258, no. 1387 Z:François-Emmanuel de Wasseige K:G dc|BG ~G2 AGFD|BGGd Bdgd|BG ~G2 AGED|EAAG A2dc| BG ~G2 AGFD|BGGd Bdgd|B2BG AGED|EGGA G2|| z2|dega b2ag|(3efg dg egdB|dega b2ag|eaab a2ge| dega b2ag|(3efg dg egdc|B2BG AGED|EGGA G2|]

TOUCH ME IF YOU DARE [2] ("Buin liom ma's n-fearr leat" or "Do dhúshlán baint dom"). AKA and see “Back in the Garden,” "Johnny Reidy,” "Mick Nestor," "Mountain Top (The)," “Touch Me if You Can." Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Mulvihill, O'Neill/1850 & 1915): AA'B (O'Neill/Krassen): AABB (Flaherty, Harker): AA’BB’ (Taylor).

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - flute player Pat Meehan (b. 1960, Killaraght area of south Sligo [Flaherty]; “from my mother” [Mulvihill]; fiddler Nellie Kennedy (Chicago) whose brother, fiddler James Kennedy also contributed to O’Neill’s collection, and whose father was a County Leitrim fiddler of local renown from whom she learned this tune [O’Neill]; set dance music recorded at Na Píobairí Uilleann, mid-1980’s [Taylor]; New Jersey flute player Mike Rafferty, born in Ballinakill, Co. Galway, in 1926 [Harker].

Printed sources : - Flaherty (Trip to Sligo), 1990; p. 108. Harker (300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty), 2005; No. 23, p. 8. Mulvihill (1st Collection), 1986; No. 33, p. 9. O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 130. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 1387, p. 258. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 631, p. 114. O’Neill (O’Neill’s Irish Music), 1915; No. 245, p. 129. Taylor (Music for the Sets: Yellow Book), 1995; p. 30. Tubridy (Irish Traditional Music, vol. 1), 1999; p. 20.

Recorded sources : - RTE RTECD225, Mrs. Elizabeth Crotty - "Concertina Music from West Clare" (1995. Original recordings made in 1955 and 1960).

See also listing at :
Jane Keefer’s Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Alan Ng’s Irishtune.info [2]

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