Jed:

The clearest example of Irish music in Texas I have encountered is the use of the old Irish song "Rocking the Cradle of a Child Not His OWn" (not sure of its proper name) as the basis for the roundup song, "Git Along, L'il Dogies". The parallels are so clear in tune and phrase that it dramatically demonstrates the folk process at work in the Irish Western migration in the late 1800's.

Well, I am not sure "Git Along Lil Dogies" is Texan, but it could easdily be. For that matter, the Streets of Laredo, which is definitely Texan, has similar clear antecedents in Irish song, but I do not remember what they are just at the moment...

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