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The Boys Of Ballinamore

jig

Key signature: Dmixolydian

Submitted on March 27th 2007 by feadogboy.

This tune has been added to 16 tunebooks.

Also known as The Hardy Boys Of Ballinamore, Harty Boys Of Ballinamore, The Hearty Boys Of Ballinamore.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

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X: 1
T: Boys Of Ballinamore, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmix
|:B|cAF ~G3|ABc AdB|cAF GFG|Ade fed|
cAF ~G3|ABc AdB|cAF GFG|Ad^c d2:|
g|:fed efg|ecc gcg|fed efg|age d2d/e/|
fed efg|~e3 geg|faf e/f/ge|d2e fed:|

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The Boys Of Ballinamore sheetmusic
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Lovely tune - is this your own?
I think the end of the high part is not perfect yet - so I add to the traditional process of transformation:
(3fga f ege|d2e fz:|

# Posted on March 28th 2007 by swisspiper

This is an old trad tune. It's in O'Neill's.

A comment from feadogboy would have been nice.

# Posted on March 28th 2007 by Dr. Dow

This is O'Neill's version (from the oldmusicproject.com)
d/2B"^Segno"||cAF G2G|ABc AdB|cAF GFG|Ade fed|
cAF G2G|ABc AdB|cAF GFG|Adc d2"^Fine"||
g|fed efg|ecc gcc|fed efg|age d2(d/2e/2)|
fed efg|eccgcc|faf (e/2f/2g)e|d2e "^Dal Segno al Fine"fed|]

# Posted on March 29th 2007 by swisspiper

a lovely jig

# Posted on May 2nd 2007 by birlibirdie

Feadogboy speaks!

We did indeed learn this from O'Neill's, while searching for tunes having to do with Ballinamore. Ballinamore, Co Leitrim was where fiddler Ed McDermott hailed from, our first introduction to "the pure drop"

As swisspiper notated, the more we played it, the further it got from the "canonical" version.

Recorded in 1985, posted in 2007, commented on in 2011. Charter member, International Procrastinators Society!

# Posted on March 31st 2011 by feadogboy

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