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Éamon put this one on a tape for me, but didn’t have a name for it. It’s a first cousin of another hornpipe called ‘Jackie Tar.’ I was informed a long time later that Éamon’s setting of the tune is from an old English hornpipe collection and that its place of origin is the north of England.
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