Annotation:Hammer and Tongs
Tune properties and standard notation
HAMMER AND TONGS. Irish, Air (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC.
Source for notated version: "...from the whistling of Joe Martin of Kilfinane Co. Limerick, a rambling working man with a great knowledge of Irish airs and songs, and much natural taste" (Joyce).
Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 181, pp. 90-91.
Recorded sources:
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