Annotation:Faire! Faire! ar Aghaidh! ar Aghaidh!

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FAIRE! FAIRE! AR AGHAIDH! AR AGHAIDH! (Watch! Watch! Forward! Forward!). AKA - "Pharroh or War March (The)." AKA and see "Huggerth the Puss." Irish, Air (6/8 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCD. A variant of the tune is in Breathnach's Ceol Rince na hEireann (No. 12) as "Port Liadroma." Bunting also called the tune "Yellow Wattle, 2nd set" in his MS.

Source for notated version: the Irish collector Edward Bunting obtianed the melody from another collector, George Petrie, in 1835

Printed sources: O'Sullivan/Bunting, 1983; No. 143, p. 200.

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