O'Keeffe's Slide

The slide is named for Dan O'Keeffe, known as "Danny Ab," a small man who lived alone up the road from fiddlers Denis Murphy and Julia Clifford in Lisheen, in the Sliabh Luachra district of Kerry. He mended clothes for a living and whistled or lilted tunes he said he had from his mother. Julia Clifford remembered picking up his tunes by ear as a child when he visited the house.

The Chieftains spread it through their 1972 album Chieftains 4, and in the United States Grey Larsen and Malcolm Dalglish paired it with "The Road to Lisdoonvarna," which it resembles. Sessions play it in A dorian or a fifth lower in E dorian.