Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 1600 (Please Give a Penny to the Poor Old Man)

RhythmBarsMode
Fling32G Major
Transcription of first 2 bars of Please Give a Penny to the Poor Old Man
 about these two bars

These two bars are the start of my transcription of how this tune was played – the first time through – on the recording TDMI (details in the Discography below).

Where do you get the tune titles?
Titles given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Please Give a Penny to the Poor Old Man (1st in set McLaughlin's Flings on FG 2; for last figure of Lancers on TDMI)
What do the "track#tune" codes mean?

cd Discography

Here are all recordings of this tune considering only the indexed recordings. I have discovered by careful listening that these sources are in fact musically the same tune, regardless of the tune titles they use, key changes, retuning, etc. They are listed in order of when they were recorded.

Year
Recorded		 Track
#Tune		 [Album code] Artist. Title. Primary musicians (instruments). Album details
and contents
~19537#1[TDMI] various. Traditional Dance Music of Ireland. View album details
198310#1[FG 2] Frankie Gavin. Croch Suas É. Up and Away. Frankie Gavin (flute, fiddle, whistle, accordion).View album details

Bibliography

According to my research, there are zero transcriptions that sound very similar to this tune anywhere in the indexed books, regardless of tune title. Try my recommended links to other indexes if you need a transcription. To learn to play this tune, simply learn it from another musician or study the recording(s) listed above. See also: Tips for Learning Irish Traditional Music.

Year of the oldest source for this tune, considering the recordings and transcriptions listed above (note that I concentrate on sources after 1900): 1953
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