It's a Long Way Back to Tipperary

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Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection

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Item Title

It's a Long Way Back to Tipperary

Author/Creator

Collector: Jabbour, Alan
Collector: Jabbour, Karen Singer
Performer: Reed, Henry; fiddle
Composer: Jack Judge and Harry H. Williams, words and music, 1912

Created/Published

July 17, 1967
Reed family home, Glen Lyn, Virginia (Giles County)

Notes

"It's a Long Way to Tipperary" was composed by Jack Judge and Harry H. Williams in 1912, and has been part and parcel of American popular music since then.
Key: C
Meter: 4/4
Strains: 2 (middle-middle, 8-16)
Rendition: (2)-1-2-1-2
Phrase Structure: ABACABA'C' QRSTQRUVQRWXYZ
Compass: 8
Spoken: [before tune]/HENRY REED: No, that ain't it.[after tune]/HENRY REED: Did you never hear that?/ALAN JABBOUR: Uh-uh.
Recording chronology: 133
Duration: 1 minute, 41 seconds

Subject

Airs
Fiddle tunes
Instrumentals--fiddle
Ethnography
Music
United States--Virginia--Giles County--Glen Lyn

Object Type

sound recording

Medium

sound recording

Language

English

Call Number

AFC LWO 5379 reel 3A, AFS 13705A:38

Digital ID

afcreed 13705a38
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afcreed.13705a38