Annotation:Johnny Dennehy's
Tune properties and standard notation
JOHNNY DENNEHY'S. AKA and see "Chalk Sunday," "Pretty Jane," "White Pony (The)." Irish, Jig. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Máire O'Keefe remarks that the jig comes from the playing of Maurice O'Keeffe who had it from John Dennehy, a fiddler from the Farranfore area whose playing was greatly influenced by Tom Billy Murphy the travelling music teacher of Sliabh Luarchra (Cork/Kerry). The tune appears to be a version of Joyce's "Chalk Sunday." See also "Bill Collins"/"Dan Collin's Father's Jig."
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Recorded sources: Gael-Linn CEF 176, Jackie Daly - "Many's a Wild Night" (1995).