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Thread #45120   Message #2714625
Posted By: Jack Campin
02-Sep-09 - 11:55 AM
Thread Name: Tune of 'Limerick Rake'
Subject: RE: Tune of 'Limerick Rake'
I first came across the title "The Limerick Rake" listed as the tune for "Too Many Daves", the song with words by Dr Seuss that was included on one of Anne Feeney's early recordings. (I think it might have been D.C. Fitzgerald's idea to put the tune and words together).

But as far as I was concerned I already knew the tune - it was "The Rakes of Kildare". Maybe a few notes different but not so anyone would notice.

Do people think of them as being two different tunes?