Annotation:As I Walked on the Road to Sligo

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AS I WALKED ON THE ROAD TO SLIGO. Irish, Air (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. P.W. Joyce printed two variants of the tune, as "Kitty Alone" and "As I Walked on the Road to Sligo," while George Petrie collected a version from Patrick Carew's mss.^[1] as "Paddy Brown."

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Printed sources : - P.W. Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 123, p. 62.

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↑ Researcher Nicholas Carolan of the Irish Traditional Music Archive records that P. Carew (or, as collector William Forde gave his name, 'Paddy Carey') was a musically literate professional uilleann piper living in Lag Lane, St Finbarre’s parish, Cork, in the mid-1840's. The area, notes Carolan, was near a military barracks, and was the location of shebeens (illicit bars) and brothels, notorious for poverty and crime. A number of harper Turlough O'Carolan's compositions were in his repertoire, and were the object of collectors.

[1] Researcher Nicholas Carolan of the Irish Traditional Music Archive records that P. Carew (or, as collector William Forde gave his name, 'Paddy Carey') was a musically literate professional uilleann piper living in Lag Lane, St Finbarre’s parish, Cork, in the mid-1840's. The area, notes Carolan, was near a military barracks, and was the location of shebeens (illicit bars) and brothels, notorious for poverty and crime. A number of harper Turlough O'Carolan's compositions were in his repertoire, and were the object of collectors.

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