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Monday Oct 05, 2015
The One Horned Cow (reel)
Monday Oct 05, 2015
Monday Oct 05, 2015
Here's a reel which was included in O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland in 1907 as 'An Bhó Mhaol / The Hornless Cow' but was recorded by Liam Walsh in 1933 as 'The One Horned Cow'
https://archive.org/details/LiamWalshTheFairyReelTheOneHornedCowTheLimestoneRock. The beast must have sprouted a bit in the intervening 26 years; unless 1930s Waterford had a population of bovine unicorns - possibly only visible to Uilleann Pipers. Maybe it still does.

(There's a baby battering a table in the background of this recording - more in time than many percussionists).
Here are the cow's dots.
https://thesession.org/tunes/2825

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