Fascinating bit of ancestry for this tune I love playing. I also learned it with c rather than d in the b part. Having just recently acquired a device to translate ABC tunes to dots and inserting tune files by the bucketload into it, I've had to do some comparison shopping to see which version is closest to the paper versions I learned from.

I know tunes passed around by aural tradition can have wee bits of variation, and when put to paper, sometimes ornaments look like part of the melody. This was a key to trying to sort out a tune name for a friend who fell in love with a piece used in the movie "The Secret of Roan Innish." My best guess was that it was a variation on "The Butterfly" which I'd only recently started to learn. That what was played might be an ancestor, or relative tune to that makes considerable sense. Thanks!

Joanne in Cleveland