Thanks Dan, I haven't been away, just on different threads. I don't know if Purslow was right. Want to stressed note code all his tunes so we can compare with all the Irish ones pre 1860 in the file COMBCOD2.TXT? (and I do mean every known Irish tune pre 1860)

PS: "A fine old Irish Gentleman" is about a 4th or 5th generation reworking of the 17th century English "Queen's Old Courtier" to the tune "Old Soldiers of the Queen". I know the tune is an ABC in my broadside ballad tunes. I've forgotten for sure if I put the song on my website. I think I did, and have, if not there elsewhere, the author of the Irish "A fine Old Irish Gentleman". I never got back to get a version of about 1800, and failed to copy Thomas Hudson's of about 1820 that I ran across. [My xerox copy, with music, of "A fine old Irish gentleman" is from an Irish-American songbook of 1864, where author is unidentified.]