Ted asked:
> Can anyone shed any light on the following tune, which appears in
> Cole's/Ryan's as "Kilwinning's Steeple" (where it's marked as "Scotch") and
> in O'Neills as "The Clock in the Steeple". It certainly looks like a
> Scottish tune, but I haven't been able to trace it yet in any of the older
> Scottish collections. Could this be another of the tunes O'Neill "borrowed"
> from Cole's?
Sorry this is such a late response- I've just got round to listening to the
ABC. The tune's pretty much the same that used for the old Scots song
'There's nae luck aboot the hoose', which is set more as a strathspey.
Derek
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