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Tune ID#2376 (Pursuit of Farmer Michael Hayes)

Basic musical information on this tune.
Type ?Mode ?
SongE Dorian
Titles ? given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Pursuit of Farmer Michael Hayes, The / The Farmer Michael Hayes (compare as air included here Farmer Hayes / I'm Now in the Land of Liberty / A Fig for All My Foes)
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Discography cd

Here are all recordings of this song – considering only the indexed recordings.

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Year
Recorded		 Track
#Tune?		 [Album code] Artist. Title (Link to Album Info page). Performers (instruments).
~19797#1
[Plx 5] Planxty. After the Break. Christy Moore (vocals, guitar, harmonium, bodhrán), Donal Lunny (blarge, guitar), Andy Irvine (vocals, mandolin, mandola, hurdy gurdy, bouzouki), Liam O'Flynn (pipes, whistle), Matt Molloy (flute, whistle). For this tune: Christy Moore.
19807#1
[FtE] Dolores Keane and John Faulkner with Eamonn Curran. Farewell to Erin (Farewell to Éirinn). Instruments not specified: Dolores Keane (vocals, etc.), John Faulkner (vocals, etc.).
200313#1
[TBrwne] Tim Browne. Mutiny in the County. Tim Browne (fiddle, vocals, bouzouki).

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In the above Discography, this tune is:

Played beforeOn Albums
Dever the Dancer		FtE

Bibliography

Here are transcriptions of this song – considering only the indexed books, listed in chronological order.

Listing of published transcriptions of this tune.
As tune #63 in [1850] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. [available]

If you are considering using the above transcriptions to help you learn this tune, I invite you to check these practical Tips for Learning Irish Traditional Music. See also: So why do you bother indexing books and abc?

Year of the oldest source for this tune, considering only the recordings and transcriptions listed above (note that I concentrate on sources after 1900): 1903
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