Doran's Ass
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Doran's Ass", also known as "Finnegan's Wake" or "Paddy Doyle's Ass" is an Irish and<br> American song, polka, march or reel in D Major. The parts are played AB.<br> According to Bayard (1981) the title is the one the tune is most commonly known by and<br> comes from a "stage Irish" song. A variant of it was published by J.O. Bebbington<br> sometime before 1859 and archived at the Bodleian Library. It was widely disseminated,<br> with versions collected in much of the English-speaking world, and was known, for example,<br> in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Pennsylvania as a folk song (where it was sometimes<br> called "Dolan's Ass").<br> This version is from Hiram Horner as collected by Samuel Bayard. Horner was a fifer from<br> Fayette/Westmoreland Counties, Pa., from whom Bayard collected the tune in 1944. Horner<br> said he learned it from Scots fifer David P. Henderson. Horner was from a long<br> line of fifers, including his grandfather and great-grandfather.<br> It was printed in Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1981),<br> O'Neill's Music of Ireland (1903),<br> Roche's A Collection of Irish Airs, Marches and Dance Tunes (1911),<br> Creighton's Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia (1933),<br> O'Lochlainn's Irish Street Ballads (1939) and<br> Deloughery's Sliabh Luachra on Parade (1980).<br> It was recorded by Frank Quinn (1925).<br>
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