Kitty's Gone a Milking, Ronan Browne & Peadar O'Loughlin's version with the B-part variation.
Or, The Long Golden (?) Hair Hung Down Her Back (possibly black hair?), Junior Crehan tune, on Mick O'Brien's 'May Morning Dew'.
Ottery, snap - I think Junior Crehan, or was it Willie Clancy, used to call that tune 'The Long Golden Hair Hung Down her Back and the Colour of Her Hair was Black'.
Pantera's 'Cowboys from Hell' on an A whistle, through my laptop mic with Garageband's Arena Overdrive effect setting to make me sound like a solo lead guitar. (Rock on!)
well, you did say "this minute", Zina.
Before that was Maid Behind the Bar and The Dairy Maids. But I guess my mind wandered.
Nell, re the Junior Crehan tune. For some reason I have it in my head that the full name is 'Hanging down Her Back, And The Colour Of Her Golden Hair Was Black. I've heard it suggested that the title is a fragment of lyrics from a song that J.C. adapted the tune from - and indeed, to me does sound very song-like.
Although I'm fond of the Mick O'Brien version (love that whole album), my favourite is the Michael McGoldrick version on Fused (though never sure whether the Album title would be derived from Fused as in 'fusion, or Fused as in (con)'fused!).
Anyway, it's a lovely tune to play on the flute.
Not sure, Nell. I think they're late 90s/current? A little after my time (ha ha! By then I was over rock + metal and going through a temporary psychadelic hippy phase.)
Recently I was told rather sternly that one does not, EVER, refer to certain Junior Crehan as "The Girl with the Hairy Back". Otherwise there will be Trouble, Mister. I rilly rilly like Mick O'Brien's version of it too. That guy really knows where his towel is.
...'knows where his towel is'?... you'll have to explain that one, Q. As for Queens of the Stone Age - they like totally rock, dude! Never mind that you're over all that - listen to 'Songs for the Deaf'. It's probably my favourite rock album ever, and I'm a long way past my rock phase, too. (And that's in spite of it having a rather annoying conceit, of radio collages in between all the tracks, which I edited out on minidisc.) And live - the best rock band I ever saw. No question.
Re my own choice. I have to admit to being very fond of "The Tempest" too, if it's the same tune and I like to follow it with "The Woods of Old Limerick" in D
In order to explain the towel thing, Nell, I'd have to talk about Douglas Adams, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and the one-man one act play I did of it in high school. But that would only reinforce the stereotype Zina's just foisted on me, so I shan't.
I shall, however, hunt down some queens of the stone age!
Christ, John, and here I was thinking that it was one of those ever so innovative mix-up-the-meter sets...were you giggling at me trying to have a tactfully open mind? Heh.
Tune Check, Mach (200)5!
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Quick, what's your favorite tune RIGHT NOW?!? Don't think about it too hard, just answer.
The Tempest.
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Zina Lee
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Bird in the Bush
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by John Culhane
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Doorus Mill
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Dr. Dow
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Rambling Pitchfork (maybe Sean Bui) Miki
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by nemethmik
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Donegal Tinker
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by grego
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The "Bird in the Bush" was known as "Dan Quayle's Reel" around these parts in the late 80s.
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Phantom Button
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Donegal Tinker! Donegal Tinker! That's one of my favorites too,
Greg!
Oh, I forgot...maybe my favorite tune right now is The Commodore...nah, still The Tempest.
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Zina Lee
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Scully Casey's (slide)
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by ∅
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Zina, you're like the indecisive knight in the Holy Grail. (What's your favourite colour?)
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by grego
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Mike Rafferty's version of "The Tap Room," called "The Hard Road to Travel." Or "Crosses of Annagh."
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by slainte
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I like "The Four Shoves", and "The Sailor's Hornpipe"
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Tubular_bell
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The Twenty-One Highland, played by Johnny Docherty on "Round the House and Mind the Dresser"
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by GraemeO
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That there first of them two barndances on Harry Bradley's first album. You know, the one in G....
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by snorre
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frieze britches
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Kelpie
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Split Rock.
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Janek
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'Horses, Geese, and One Old Man' written by Grey Larson
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by hiharin83
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Lucy Cambell
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by BegF
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The Drop Dead Waltz by Kathryn Tickell
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Innocent Bystander
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I Lost My Love
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by rudall
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A Fig for a Kiss
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by the wounded hussar
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Devanney's Goat
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Bannerman
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The Poll Halfpenny
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by showaddydadito
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Gaelic Club
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Ptollemy
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down the broom
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Atk
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THE FOGGY DEW
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by danny boy
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Kitty's Gone a Milking, Ronan Browne & Peadar O'Loughlin's version with the B-part variation.
Or, The Long Golden (?) Hair Hung Down Her Back (possibly black hair?), Junior Crehan tune, on Mick O'Brien's 'May Morning Dew'.
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Nell
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Damp in the Attic
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Jim Williams
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Peeler's Jacket
Green Mountain
The Colour Of Her Golden Hair was Black
The Kerry Fling
OK, that's not strictly speaking ONE tune...
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Ottery
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Ottery, snap - I think Junior Crehan, or was it Willie Clancy, used to call that tune 'The Long Golden Hair Hung Down her Back and the Colour of Her Hair was Black'.
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Nell
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Drops of Brandy
KFG
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by KFG
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Pantera's 'Cowboys from Hell' on an A whistle, through my laptop mic with Garageband's Arena Overdrive effect setting to make me sound like a solo lead guitar. (Rock on!)
well, you did say "this minute", Zina.
Before that was Maid Behind the Bar and The Dairy Maids. But I guess my mind wandered.
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Q
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oh.. favourite. Sorry, I thought you meant what am I playing. Contentment is Wealth. Luvverly.
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Q
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Out on the Ocean, of course.
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by AlBrown
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The Peacocks Feathers, 1 & 2. Lovely hornpipes.
Ken
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by RogueFiddler
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the choice wife
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by I_Fel
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Joe Cooley's Reel
Avi
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by improziv
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Q, what's your view on Queens of the Stone Age, then?
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Nell
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The Reel of Mullinavat, from the Yvonne Casey solo CD.
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Jiml
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Nell, re the Junior Crehan tune. For some reason I have it in my head that the full name is 'Hanging down Her Back, And The Colour Of Her Golden Hair Was Black. I've heard it suggested that the title is a fragment of lyrics from a song that J.C. adapted the tune from - and indeed, to me does sound very song-like.
Although I'm fond of the Mick O'Brien version (love that whole album), my favourite is the Michael McGoldrick version on Fused (though never sure whether the Album title would be derived from Fused as in 'fusion, or Fused as in (con)'fused!).
Anyway, it's a lovely tune to play on the flute.
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Ottery
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Not sure, Nell. I think they're late 90s/current? A little after my time (ha ha! By then I was over rock + metal and going through a temporary psychadelic hippy phase.)
Recently I was told rather sternly that one does not, EVER, refer to certain Junior Crehan as "The Girl with the Hairy Back". Otherwise there will be Trouble, Mister. I rilly rilly like Mick O'Brien's version of it too. That guy really knows where his towel is.
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Q
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Matty, you are a geek. On many, many levels. *smirk* Greg, I don't have a favorite color, just favorite colors for different things.
I have got to get round to learning some of these tunes. There're so many I want to learn that sometimes I forget which ones I wanted to learn first!
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Zina Lee
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The Terrarium ..a great tune written by the piper Alan Burton.
Also 250 to Vigo (is this a train?)
These two go realy well together
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Geoff Pollitt
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Paddy Taylor's Reel
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by browndog
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er, um , wait... I mean "Up and About in the Morning"
or is it "Garrett Barry's Jig"?
or "The Woods of Old Limerick", or "The Boy in the Gap"???
Oh heck, I broke Zina's Rule and thought about it too much!
Sorry.
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by browndog
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Maids of Mount Kisco.
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by aoife
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Toss the Feathers
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by FiddleMama
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Geoff, didn't Angus Whosis write that riding pillion on the back of a motorcycle on the way to Vigo? I think so...
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Zina Lee
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BTW, with the exception of Golden Hair/Long Black Hair/That Junior Crehan Tune, there's so far no duplications -- how interesting is that?
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Zina Lee
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Will Harmon hasn't commented yet so can I suggest "The Concertina reel" on his behalf?
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Johnny Jay
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I'd say it's about a 6.5, Zina.
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Q
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...'knows where his towel is'?... you'll have to explain that one, Q. As for Queens of the Stone Age - they like totally rock, dude! Never mind that you're over all that - listen to 'Songs for the Deaf'. It's probably my favourite rock album ever, and I'm a long way past my rock phase, too. (And that's in spite of it having a rather annoying conceit, of radio collages in between all the tracks, which I edited out on minidisc.) And live - the best rock band I ever saw. No question.
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Nell
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Stack of Rye, Stack of Oats, Never Was Piping So Gay
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Pawl
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Re my own choice. I have to admit to being very fond of "The Tempest" too, if it's the same tune and I like to follow it with "The Woods of Old Limerick" in D
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Johnny Jay
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Well, there then, Johnny J! Hmmm. I'll have to try it with Woods. Hadn't thought of that one. (Never Was Piping So Gay -- fab tune!)
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Zina Lee
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The Convenience reel was going around in my head when I read the post.
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Rudall the time
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I should clarify that it's the jig I play which you'll probably have guessed--because of the follow up tune.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1072
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Johnny Jay
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In order to explain the towel thing, Nell, I'd have to talk about Douglas Adams, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and the one-man one act play I did of it in high school. But that would only reinforce the stereotype Zina's just foisted on me, so I shan't.
I shall, however, hunt down some queens of the stone age!
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Q
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Oh, like I needed to foist very hard. It sort of leapt to the forefront of the mind, you know. *smirk*
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Zina Lee
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Christ, John, and here I was thinking that it was one of those ever so innovative mix-up-the-meter sets...were you giggling at me trying to have a tactfully open mind? Heh.
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Zina Lee
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I tried to imagine someone foisting very hard, and it all got a bit unsavoury...
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Nell
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I'd be willing to get unsavoury with Matty, Helen. Except someone would probably have me arrested for cradle robbing.
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Zina Lee
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bunker hill. roaring water. Hedigan's.
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by rainog
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strewth!
As we have established on a previous thread, I *am* old enough to tie my own shoelaces.
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Q
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At least six, then?
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Nell
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So are six year olds, Matty.
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Zina Lee
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LOL -- jinx, Helen!
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Zina Lee
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(btw, did the sound file work, Matt?)
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Zina Lee
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When I was one, I had just begun...
...but now that I'm twenty seven, people think I'm eleven!
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Q
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Got it. You have mail...
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Q
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Aye, Concertina Reel it is, in a trans-meter set with (name yer polka here) and Harvest Home/Boys of Bluehill....
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Will Harmon
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The Fair Haired Boy
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Pete D
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Boys of Bluehill as well
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Pete D
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I mean Bllisodare...not Bluehill
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Pete D
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The High Hill - Reel
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Hugo Chavez
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*Urp* Ew, that left a taste in my mouth....
(referring back to my own post above)
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Will Harmon
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Grainnes Jig. (thanks again, Will)
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by fidkid
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"The Humours Of Swanlinbar" - as played by Brenda McCann on "Hidden Fermanagh" Vol.2. Doesn't get any better.
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Kenny
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You're the third person I know who has mentioned that recording in a week, Kenny. I need to find a copy of that.
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Zina Lee
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And 4'33 is my all-time favourite. I'm play it right now. How beautiful!
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by slainte
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It's my favourite tune on the bodhran
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Johnny Jay
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LOL -- that's enough from you, Gill Jr.!
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Zina Lee
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Sorry, I was too excited to use correct grammar.
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by slainte
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"The "Bird in the Bush" was known as "Dan Quayle's Reel" around these parts in the late 80s."
LOL and drawing attention!
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Bob himself
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Reel Beatrice. Yep, I've been listening to Liz.
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Bob himself
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"The Humours Of Swanlinbar" - as played by Brenda McCann on "Hidden Fermanagh" Vol.2. Doesn't get any better. - Kenny
Ideed... I love that tune, it reminds me of the sort of tune Liz Carroll would come up with.
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Phantom Button
Indeed even
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Phantom Button
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Hardiman Fiddlesomething. Slip jig, Leo Rowesome played it.
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by wormdiet
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The boy in the boat, ..................when Leonard and Michelle play it!
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Backer
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The Iron Man.
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by sara g
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Spórt
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Pádraig
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Bird in the Bush has recently been renamed "Michele Bachman's" around here, after a minnesota state senator.
http://www.eleventh-avenue-south.com/archives/000491.html
My favourite is a highland(?) and reel from Danny O'Donnell via a tape of Dermie Diamond.
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Jode
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LOL Jode!
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Zina Lee
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The New Road
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Matt Harris
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Concerto number 6 in C sharp for bodhran.
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by bodhran bliss
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Thought you would like that one Zina!
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Jode
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So far yer two fer two, Jode!
# Posted on April 14th 2005 by Zina Lee
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Star of Munster, Tam Lin (if I could ever figure out the B part on the pipes)
# Posted on April 15th 2005 by DrSilverSpear
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I've got the Mountain Road running through my head (painful!) at this very moment and I need to go home and practice it
# Posted on April 15th 2005 by RichardB
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Ah! A 250 motorbike (re. 250 to Vigo)! That would make sense Zina.
Cheers
# Posted on April 15th 2005 by Geoff Pollitt
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Stairway to Heaven!!!!
(pause)
What -- what's everybody staring at? Did I say something?
# Posted on April 21st 2005 by Hickory6
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You're fired, Hickory. ;) (just kidding.)
# Posted on April 21st 2005 by Zina Lee