The Catholic Boys
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Catholic Boys (in Gaelic "Cathaoir an Phíobáire", also known as "The Piper's Chair" and<br> "Silver and Gold" is an Irish air or double jig in G Mixolydian/Major. The parts are<br> played A(one part) (Petrie), AB (O'Neill), AABB (Bayard, Breathnach, Roche). The melody is<br> better-known today as "The Piper's Chair".<br> Petrie stated the old Irish name for the tune was lost but that this was the name his<br> source, Clare piper Willie Clancy, used. A version of the tune was entered into the<br> large mid-19th century music manuscript of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper<br> Canon James Goodman under the title "Silver and Gold".<br> The tune was collected in western Pennsylvania by Samuel Bayard from fifer Hiram Horner.<br> It was printed in Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1981),<br> Breathnach's CRÉ I (1963),<br> O'Malley's Luke O'Malley's Collection of Irish Music, vol. 1 (1976),<br> O'Neill's O'Neill's Irish Music (1915),<br> O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903),<br> Petrie's Ancient Music of Ireland and<br> Roche's Collection of Traditional Irish Music, vol. 3 (1927).<br>
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