Bill, about the only thing that bugs me about Irish music is that habit of modulating the key.
There was a guy named Charlie Moore who took KEVIN BARRY and rebuilt it into an American civil war song. Now, everyone who sings his song copies his style of raising the pitch after each verse. It adds nothing to the song, and when I do Kevin Barry I absolutely refuse to do that. One guy said thats not how that song goes! Did he lead with his chin, or what?