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1. Unpublished Folk Song - Dudley Gallagher's Wake (ar lean)

   

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   They didn't go far till their mourning did cease
   And to cheer up their melodies they thought it would please
   They played all sorts of music that did correspond
   The Harmonica Melodious, and 'Tipsy [?] Farband'
   The fife & piano the fiddle & harp
   The drum, tambourine and the Clarisnet sharp.
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   With twenty-fourtinkers in front of the play
   To make them both Jolly, jovial & gay,]
   Till they landed at Cloone, where they buried the dead
   On this mournful subject there's no more to be said.

   The fore-going verses relate to a tinker's funeral which occurred in the town-land of Aughnaglace some eighty years ago. It appears that news of the death of Dudley Gallagher was brought to the tinker confraternity throughout the midlands and West of Ireland. They flocked to the funeral in their hundreds and the unusual spectacle was presented of hundreds of tinkers marching in procession at a funeral and playing martial airs on all kinds of improvised instruments

   

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