- Style
- Celtic
- Tradition
- Irish
- Form
- Hornpipe
- Key
- D
- Level
- 4
- Played on
- Fiddle
In the public domain. Source
Music
90bpm
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Chord chart
History
Francis O'Neill was Chicago's Chief of Police in the early 1900s and a flute player who collected thousands of tunes from Irish immigrants. He got this hornpipe from Edward Cronin (1842 to 1918), a Tipperary fiddler, weaver and machinist who had no name for it and named it after the Chief.
O'Neill wrote that Cronin could play for hours with a face as still as the Sphinx, and boasted that he never forgot or forgave an injury. Patrick Scanlon recorded the tune in 1917. Older Kerry players use F and C naturals in the second part.