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X:102 T:Mickey Chewing Bubblegum C:Terence "Cuz" Teahan M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Polka B:Deloughery - Sliabh Luachra on Parade (1980, No.102) N:From the playing of Terry Teahan Z:Patrick Cavanagh K:A a2 af|ec a2|ce af|ec BA|a2 af|ec a2|ce Bc|BA A2:| |:ce ec|df fe|ce ec|dc BA|ce ec|df fe|ce Bc|BA A2:||

MICKY CHEWING BUBBLEGUM. AKA and see "Bill Sullivan's," "Denis Murphy's Polka." Irish, Polka (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by the late Terry "Cuz" Teahan (1905-1989) as a youngster in Glountane, County Kerry, prior to leaving Ireland for America. Philippe Varlet says that Teahan composed the tune while still taking lessons with the great Sliabh Luachra fiddler Pádraig O'Keeffe. O'Keeffe liked the composition and continued to teach it after Teahan's departure, and it eventually circulated among local musicians; hence the name "Bill Sullivan's" after a local player (by which title it appears on the Jackie Daly & Seamus Creagh album {CEF 057}).

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Terry Teahan [McCullough].

Printed sources : - L.E. McCullough (The Complete Irish Tinwhistle Tutor), 1987; No. 51. Phillips (Fiddle Case Tunebook: British Isles), 1989; p. 40 (as untitled polka). Vallely (Learn to Play the Fiddle with Armagh Pipers Club); No. 24.

Recorded sources : - Wild Goose WGS 320, Old Swan Band – "Swan-Upmanship" (2004).

See also listing at :
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [2]

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