X:19
T:The Trip We Took Over the Mountain
B:Tomas Ó Canainn, Traditional Slow Airs of Ireland,
B:Ossian, 1995.
D:Liam Farrell, Joe Whelan, Reg Hall,
D::They Sailed away from Dublin Bay, Veteran VT141CD.
N:Derived from 'The Old Mole' in Playford's English
N:Dancing Master of 1651, a 16th century tune which
N:Playford's collectors got from the English West
N:Country.
N:Popular as an old-time waltz in London but also
N:played as a jig (see P W Joyce, 1909, Old Irish
N:Folk Music and Song, No. 269, almost identical to
N:the Playford setting).
Z:ATB
R:waltz
M:3/4
L:1/8
K:G
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