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Basic musical information on this tune.
Rhythm ?	Bars	8-bar phrase structure	Mode ?
Double jig	48	AABBCC	G Major

Discography

Here are all recordings of this tune considering only the indexed recordings. I have discovered by careful listening that these sources are in fact musically the same tune, regardless of the tune titles they use, key changes, retuning, etc.

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Year Recorded	Track #Tune?	[Album code] Artist. Title (Link to Album Info page). Performers (instruments).
~1919	24#1	[PT] Patsy Touhey. The Piping of Patsy Touhey. Patsy Touhey (pipes).
1927	2.19#2	[MC] Michael Coleman. Michael Coleman 1891-1945. Michael Coleman (fiddle).
1927	12#2	[WW 2] The Wheels of the World. Early Irish-American Music. Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 1930s. Vol. 2. Michael Coleman (fiddle).
1951	1.20#1	[MGm] Michael Gorman. The Sligo Champion. The Fiddle Music of County Sligo. Michael Gorman (fiddle, vocals). For this tune: Michael Gorman (fiddle), Mick Flynn (flute).
~1967	10#1	[SprklDwn] Hughie Gillespie and Frank Kelly. The Sparkling Dawn. Hughie Gillespie (fiddle), Frank Kelly (fiddle).
1978	1.21#1	[SRyan C] Seán Ryan. A Collection of His Own Compositions and His Versions of Well Known Traditional Tunes. Seán Ryan (fiddle).
~1981	10#1	[ApW] Brian Conway and Tony DeMarco. The Apple in Winter. Irish Music in New York. Brian Conway (fiddle), Tony DeMarco (fiddle).
~1982	9#1	[TP 4] Tommy Peoples. The Iron Man. Tommy Peoples (fiddle).
1995	2#2	[DRuss] Dale Russ. Irish Fiddle. Dale Russ (fiddle).
1996	3#3	[FkKelly] Frank Kelly. Memories of Hughie Gillespie. Frank Kelly (fiddle).
1997	9#1	[MH 3] Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill. The Lonesome Touch. Martin Hayes (fiddle), Dennis Cahill (guitar).
1997	9#2	[JKn 4] James Keane. With Friends Like These. James Keane (accordion).
1998	4#2	[JKn 6] James Keane and Friends. Live in Dublin. James Keane (accordion).
~2000	7#2	[OMBFMO] Oisín Mac Diarmada, Brian Fitzgerald, Micheál Ó Ruanaigh. Traditional Music on Fiddle, Banjo and Harp. Oisín Mac Diarmada (fiddle), Brian Fitzgerald (banjo), Micheál Ó Ruanaigh (harp).
~2003	2#2	[MSHtn 1] Matt and Shannon Heaton. Dearga. Shannon Heaton (flute, whistle, vocals), Matt Heaton (guitar, vocals, bodhrán, dobro, electric guitar).
2006	2#1	[TCB 4] The Tulla Céilí Band. 60th Anniversary Celebration. Mark Donnellan (fiddle), Martin Hayes (fiddle), Jim Corry (piano), Sean Donnelly (accordion), Michael McKee (accordion), J.J. Conway (flute), Jennifer Lenihan (flute), Martin Glynn (flute), Mick Flanagan (drums).
~2006	8#2	[Trpsw] John McSherry and Dónal O'Connor. Tripswitch. John McSherry (pipes, whistle), Dónal O'Connor (fiddle, keyboards).
2007	4#1	[Aths 1] Áthas. Áthas. Heather Lewin-Tiarks (fiddle, viola, cello), Amy Richter (bodhrán, djembe, whistle), Jeff Ksiazek (guitar, whistle, flute).
~2007	9#3	[RdOnly] Brian McNamara and Tim Collins. Reed Only. Brian McNamara (pipes), Tim Collins (concertina). For this tune: Tim Collins (concertina).
~2009	7#2	[KClns 2] Kathleen Collins. My Book of Songs. Kathleen Collins (fiddle).
~2012	5#3	[MiMulc] Michelle Mulcahy. Suaimhneas. Michelle Mulcahy (harp).

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In the above Discography, this tune is:

Played after	On Albums
Trip to Sligo	MC, WW 2, FkKelly
Strike the Gay Harp	JKn 4, JKn 6
Miss Walsh	DRuss
Humours of Kill Clougher	OMBFMO
Mist-Covered Mountain	MSHtn 1
Áille's Arabesque	Trpsw
Westering Home	RdOnly
Dave Collins'	KClns 2
Father Quinn's	MiMulc

Played before	On Albums
Richard Brennan's	SprklDwn, FkKelly
Gallagher's Frolics	MH 3, TCB 4
Paddy O'Rafferty	JKn 4, JKn 6
Mouse in the Cupboard	MGm
Return to Burton Road	ApW
Queen of the Rushes	TP 4
Scatter the Mud	Aths 1
Mountcollins Jig	KClns 2

Bibliography

Here are all transcriptions of this tune considering only the indexed books, listed in chronological order. I have discovered by careful comparison that these are musical matches to this tune as played on the recordings listed above.

Listing of published transcriptions of this tune.
As tune #749 in [1850] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. [available]
As tune #37 in [1001] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. The Dance Music of Ireland. 1001 Gems. [available]
As tune #94 in volume 3 of [R] Francis Roche. The Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music. 3 vols. [available]
On page 38 of [RM] Randy Miller and Jack Perron. Irish Traditional Fiddle Music. [available]
As tune #33 in [CRE 3] Breandán Breathnach. Ceol Rince na hÉireann 3. [available]
As tune #47 in [CRE 2] Breandán Breathnach. Ceol Rince na hÉireann 2. [available]
As tune #4 in volume 2 of [LPTW] Eithne Vallely. Learn to Play the Tin Whistle. [available]
On page 20 of [Krsn] Miles Krassen. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. New and Revised. [available]
As tune #15 in [Cr] Matt Cranitch. The Irish Fiddle Book. [available]
As tune #86 in [DM 3] Dave Mallinson. 100 Evergreen Irish Session Tunes. [available]
As jig #126 in [Cobb] Dan Cobb. Cobb's Music of Ireland. [available]
As tune #228 in [Raff] Lesl Harker. 300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty. [available]

If you are considering using the above transcriptions to help you learn this tune, I invite you to check these practical Tips for Learning Irish Traditional Music. See also: So why do you bother indexing books and abc?

Year of the oldest source for this tune, considering only the recordings and transcriptions listed above (note that I concentrate on sources after 1900): 1903

Tune ID#1884 (Tell Her I Am)

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Bibliography