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Basic musical information on this tune.
Rhythm ?	Bars	8-bar phrase structure	Mode ?
Double jig	32	AABB	D Mixolydian

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.

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Year Recorded	Track #Tune?	[Album code] Artist. Title (Link to Album Info page). Performers (instruments).
~1949	20#1	[IDM 2] Past Masters of Irish Dance Music. Séamus Ennis (pipes).
1960	1.1#1	[WC 4] Willie Clancy. The Gold Ring. Willie Clancy (pipes, whistle). For this tune: (Bb pipes).
1973	15#1	[WC 2] Willie Clancy. The Pipering of Willie Clancy. Volume 1. Willie Clancy (pipes, whistle).
~1977	1.5#1	[BC 2] Bobby Casey. Taking Flight. Bobby Casey (fiddle).
~1977	17#2	[SE 4] Séamus Ennis. Forty Years of Irish Piping. Seamus Ennis (pipes except where whistle or vocals noted). For this tune: (C# pipes).
~1991	A.2#1	[MotS 1] Monks of the Screw. Bráithre an Óil. Timmy O Connor (accordion), Paudy Scully (flute), John Drew (mandocello), Tim Browne (bouzouki).
~1991	12#1	[TKn] Tommy Keane. The Piper's Apron. Tommy Keane (pipes, whistle). For this tune: (pipes).
~1995	4#1	[MMR 1] Mike and Mary Rafferty. The Dangerous Reel. Mike Rafferty (flute, whistle, pipes), Mary Rafferty (accordion, flute, whistle).
~1995	13#2	[PCny] Paddy Canny. Traditional Music from the Legendary East Clare Fiddler. Paddy Canny (fiddle).
~1998	14#1	[LN 2] Laurence Nugent. Two for Two. Laurence Nugent (flute, whistle). For this tune: (flute).
~2002	7#1	[RBPOL 2] Ronan Browne and Peter O'Loughlin. Touch Me If You Dare. Ronan Browne (pipes, flute), Peter O'Loughlin (fiddle, flute). For this tune: Ronan Browne (Bb flute), Peter O'Loughlin (fiddle), Maeve Donnelly (viola).
~2004	2#2	[JCnly 3] Johnny Connolly. An Mileoidean Scaoilte. Johnny Connolly (melodeon).
~2007	8#2	[FD 7] Finbarr Dwyer. Accordion Music from the Soul. Finbarr Dwyer (accordion).
2010	11#1	[SHtn 1] Shannon Heaton. The Blue Dress. Shannon Heaton (flute).
~2010	2#1	[JMcSh 1] John McSherry. Soma. John McSherry (pipes, whistle). For this tune: (pipes).

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In the above Discography, this tune is:

Played after	On Albums
Pipe on the Hob	SE 4
Old Tipperary	PCny
Brendan Tonra's	JCnly 3
Lake Shore	FD 7

Played before	On Albums
Sergeant Early's	WC 4, TKn
When the Cock Crows It Is Day	IDM 2
Joy of My Life	BC 2
Sixpenny Money	SE 4
Gander in the Pratie Hole	MotS 1
Cat in the Corner	MMR 1
Courtown Harbour	LN 2
Fraher's	RBPOL 2
Humors of Castlecomer	SHtn 1

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 #6 in [CRE 1] Breandán Breathnach. Ceol Rince na hÉireann 1. [available]
As tune #103 in [WC] Pat Mitchell. The Dance Music of Willie Clancy. [available]
As jig #29 in [JKg 3] Josephine Keegan. A Drop in the Ocean. Traditional Irish Tunes Collected by Josephine Keegan.
As tune #229 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): 1949

Tune ID#539 (Down the Back Lane)

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