Annotation:Doran's Ass
Tune properties and standard notation
DORAN'S ASS. AKA and see "Finnegan's Wake" [2]?. American, March or Reel. USA, southwestern Pa. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. According to Bayard (1981) the title is the one the tune is most commonly known by, and comes from a "stage Irish" song (known in Pennsylvania as a folk song, "Dolan's Ass").
Source for notated version: Hiram Horner (fifer from Fayette/Westmoreland Counties, Pa., 1944, who learned it from Scots fifer David P. Henderson) [Bayard].
Printed sources: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 276, pp. 231-232.
Recorded sources: