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yonder

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9. "Twisting the Hay Rope" -- I'll drop this Irish air right here:
Mon Feb 10, 2020, 10:55 PM
Feb 2020

From the playing of Seamus Ennis, perhaps Ireland's most famous Uilleann piper many years ago.

The story goes that a girl’s parents didn’t like the man she was seeing, so they asked him to help them with the making of Tsúgáin (Hay rope). As he added the hay to the rope he would twist it and move back as the rope got longer. When he eventually stepped outside the cottage, the parents slammed the door shut.

In my opinion the air would've finished well had he broke into a driving reel at the end though probably close to blasphemy with respect to the air.



Apologize in advance for it's off topic-edness, other than the name.

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