Annotation:Captain MacGreal of Connemara

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CAPTAIN MACGREAL OF CONNEMARA. Irish, Air (2/4 time). C Major. Standard tuning. AABB. "A Ninety-eight song was written to this air. There is a setting of this in 6/8 time elsewhere in Forde, called 'Johnny Gibbon's March'" (Joyce).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 460, p. 257.

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