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Introduction
A story for every tune
The cast of musical characters
How the collection was compiled
Characteristic features of the tunes
Packie's whistle style
A note on the Irish orthography used in this book
Notes on the transcriptions
Acknowledgments

Jigs
   1.   Forgetting the lesson
   2.   McShane's rambles
   3.   The storm
   4.   The dark girl dressed in blue
   5.   Stepping stones
   6.   The Byrnes of Gleann Cholm Cille
   7.   Merry hours of gladness
   8.   Crossing the Oily river
   9.   A dossan of heather
   10.   Teelin rowdies
   11.   The sheigh o' rye
   12.   The sapper
   13.   The lazy wife
   14.   Willie dear
  15.   Showers of autumn
   16.   Foyne's legacy
   17.   Away and over
   18.   I'll marry you when me garden grows
   19.   The peeler and the goat
   20.   Socks on the crane
   21.   The wheels of the train
   22.   The half door
   23.   An t-éan sa chrann
   24.   The buckasheen landy
   25.   An fear dall
   26.   The collier laddie
   27.   Paddy Bhillí na rópaí

Slip jigs
   28.   An cailín rua (The red-haired girl)
   29.   Piddling Peggy
   30.   The dawn pack
   31.   Humours of whiskey

Marches and polkas
   32.   The Tummel march
   33.   The fumbling chorister
   34.   A besom of heather (polka)
   35.   The belling march
   36.   I've got a bonnet (polka)
   37.   Mín na hÉireann (march)
   38.   Captain Taylor's march
   39.   The swamp reed march
   40.   The gap of Glenshane
   41.   The Fernden polka

Highlands
   42.   Piddlin' Peggy (highland)
   43.   A Gweedore highland

  44.   The forgotten highland
   45.   Mín a'Churráin
   46.   The crow's claw (Johnny Haughey's highland)
   47.   Welcome home Rosie
   48.   An fharraige chiúin (The calm sea)
   49.   An highland fada (The long highland)
   50.   An t-altán buí (The yellow-faced rock)
   51.   The last star
   52.   We're having a drop
   53.   Behind the ditch in the garden
   54.   Lilting Ann
   55.   Unnamed highland
   56.   The Willighan bush
   57.   Weans in skirts

Reels
   58.   The ghost's welcome
   59.   The dark girl dressed in blue
   60.   Call the horse!
   61.   Blow the bellows
   62.   An coileán cú
   63.   An bata tí (The house stick)
   64.   The three stars

Hornpipes and germans
   65.   Unnamed german
   66.   The Bonnie hop (german)
   67.   The stuttering auctioneer (hornpipe)
   68.   The tatty hokers (hornpipe)
   69.   Barefoot Biddy (hornpipe)
   70.   The schoolmaster's sister

Mazurkas and waltzes
   71.   Father Murphy's topcoat (Shoe the donkey)
   72.   Alla Pio
   73.   Rosie's brachán (mazurka)
   74.   Home from France (Sa bhaile ó'n Fhrainc)
   75.   Unnamed mazurka 1
   76.   Unnamed mazurka 2
   77.   The dangers of men

Airs
   78.   Suan cloch teineadh (The firestone lullaby)
   79.   An bothán (The little turf house)
   80.   The true lovers' discussion
   81.   The barley field (air and hornpipe)
   82.   The spinning wheel
  83.   The Glen Finn lass
   84.   A Welsh chapel hymn
   85.   Ar thaobh na Carraige (By the side of the rock)