There was a bit of discussion on the Nashville irish session Yahoo group about this tune—or more accurately, this group of tunes. There are at least two or three distinct tunes with this name, and probably some additional variations. This particular tune is the one that “everybody” plays in E minor. Everybody except Arcady, that is, on Many Happy Returns. They play it in D minor, and so do I because I like where the notes fall on the concertina.

I have been using Audacity to play four-note snippets of the tunes over and over again. With them broken into bits that short, I can hear all the notes even at full speed. Mostly. I’ve decided I prefer this to the digital slowing-down tools, because I get the tune just as fast and don’t have to put up with any unpleasant signal processing artifacts in the process.