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Tune of the Day: Be Easy You Rogue!

This tune can first be found, under the title “Sean bhean críona an dranntáin” (“The old woman of the grove”), in volume 4 of the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper James Goodman. “Be Easy You Rogue!” is collector Francis O'Neill's free translation of the Irish title “Stadh a rogaire stadh!” (“Stop, you rogue, stop!”). O'Neill remarks that his version, which we propose today, is a “florid setting of an old jig or march in four strains”.