The Lighthouse Polka
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Lighthouse Polka" is an Irish polka in D Major. The parts are played AABB'.<br> Accordion player Johnny O'Leary (1923-2004) of the Sliabh Luachra region of the<br> Cork-Kerry border identified the tune as learned from fiddler Jack Connell,<br> "the man of The Lighthouse. He's the man above at The Lighthouse in Ballydesmond".<br> The Lighthouse was both the name of a pub and the name of the townland where<br> Connell lived. The tune was unnamed ("Jack must have thousands of them"), so<br> O'Leary suggested naming it "The Lighthouse".<br> It was printed in Moylan's Johnny O'Leary (1994).<br> It was recorded by Johnny O'Leary (1984).<br>
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