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Thread #32961   Message #436547
Posted By: GUEST,Bruce O.
09-Apr-01 - 02:29 PM
Thread Name: Help: Origins of Capt. Macintosh & Gobby-O
Subject: RE: Help: Origins of Capt. Macintosh & Gobby-O
Depends only on how well you play it.

One of those 'Fashionable dances in Edinb.' was "Madame Cassey", not primarily a dance tune. This is a tune, apparently Irish, that O'Keeffe came up with, (for "The British lion is my sign") that was apparently well known but never previously published (before O'Keeffe's play). Since then it's been collected as the tune for many folk songs and ballads in the British Isles and North America.