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Sheet Music for "The Fox on the Town"The Fox on the TownRichard Dwyer's [2]Finbar Dwyers [4]ReelDiscography: Liz Carroll and Tommy Maguire, Kiss Me KateNotes: played in E on that album;their source was "a tin whistle player an old tape"



FOX ON THE TOWN. AKA and see "Finbarr Dwyer's (4)," "Richard Dwyer's (2)]." Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by Richard Dwyer (although occasionally credited to brother Finbarr Dwyer, 1946-2014), born in Cailroe, a town land in the Beara Peninsula, West Cork.


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - New Jersey flute player Mike Rafferty, born in Ballinakill, Co. Galway, in 1926 [Harker].

Printed sources : - Harker (300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty), 2005; No. 8, p. 3 (as "Richard Dwyer's"). Vallely (Armagh Pipers Club Play 50 Reels), 1982; No. 24, p. 13.

Recorded sources : - Carol 1108, Matt Molloy - “Shadows on Stone.” Green Linnet SIF 1077, Capercaillie - "Crosswinds" (1987). Green Linnett SIF1142, Joanie Madden - “A Whistle in the Wind.”

See also listing at :
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]



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