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Tune ID#3774 (Leather Away the Wattle O)

Transcription of first 2 bars of Leather Away the Wattle O about these two bars
These two bars were transcribed by me from how this tune was played – the first time through – on the recording BrdgGap (details in the Discography below).
Basic musical information on this tune.
Rhythm ?Bars8-bar phrase structureMode ?
Polka32AABBG Major
Titles ? given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Leather Away the Wattle O / Leather Away the Wattle-O / Wallop Away the Wattle O! / The Lancers' Quadrille / Cuadraill Na Lancers / Ballinakill Polka / The East Galway Set Polka / Sonny Riordan's (as interlude, described as a fling, in song Home on Time for Christmas on CTL 12) (compare the very similar but consistently different fling Please Give a Penny to the Poor Old Man #1600)
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Discography cd

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.

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Year
Recorded
Track
#Tune?
[Album code] Artist. Title (Link to Album Info page). Performers (instruments).
193814#1
[ITWWW] "If There Weren't Any Women in the World". The Ballinakill Ceilidhe Band: Jerry Moloney (fiddle), Tommy Whyte (fiddle), Kevin Moloney (fiddle), Aggie Whyte (fiddle), Tommy Whelan (flute), Stephen Moloney (flute).
19381.15#1
[AWhyte] Aggie Whyte. Aggie Whyte. Aggie Whyte (fiddle). For this tune: The Ballinakill Ceilidhe Band.
~198812#2
[SCnly 1] Séamus Connolly. Notes from My Mind. Séamus Connolly (fiddle).
~19957#1
[MotS 2] Monks of the Screw. Brathar na nÓl. Timmy O'Connor (accordion), Paudy Scully (flute), Tim Browne (fiddle, bouzouki, mandolin), John Drew (mandocello), Dan Curtin (fiddle, feet), Timmy O'Shea (guitar, vocals). For this tune: 1st time Timmy (accordion).
199613#1
[BrdgGap] Kevin Moloney, Sean Moloney. Bridging the Gap. Kevin Moloney (fiddle), Sean Moloney (flute).
~20045#2
[TTItself] Maeve Donnelly and Peadar O'Loughlin. The Thing Itself. Maeve Donnelly (fiddle), Peadar O'Loughlin (flute).
20095#2 (1:43)
[CTL 12] Cherish the Ladies. A Star in the East. Joanie Madden (flute, whistle, vocals, harmony vocals), Mary Coogan (guitar, mandolin, banjo), Mirella Murray (accordion), Roisin Dillon (fiddle), Kathleen Boyle (piano, harmony vocals), Michelle Burke (vocals, harmony vocals).

Goes Well with . . .

In the above Discography, this tune is:

Played afterOn Albums
Paddy Canny's
SCnly 1
Michael Coleman's
TTItself
Played beforeOn Albums
Leather Away with the Wattle O
ITWWW, AWhyte
I'm the Boy for Bewitching Them
SCnly 1
Tom Billy's
MotS 2
Chorus Jig
BrdgGap

Bibliography

Here are all transcriptions of this tune considering only the indexed books, listed in chronological order. I have discovered by careful comparison that these are musical matches to this tune as played on the recordings listed above.

Listing of published transcriptions of this tune.
As tune #105 in [CRE 5] Breandán Breathnach. Ceol Rince na hÉireann 5.
As tune #287 in [Raff] Lesl Harker. 300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty. [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): 1900