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Sonny's Marzurka

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According to a YouTube comment I found once, the "Sonny" in question is the late Sonny Brogan, an accordion player from Dublin. The tune itself is a traditional Irish song, but this arrangement in particular is very faithful to a version that appears on "One Size Fits All", a 1985 album by Different Shoes (Elmer Beal, Anne Dodson, Tom Judge and Pixie Lauer). My parents had a copy of the album in cassette in the family car, and this is just one of those things that imprinted on toddler-me.

I recreated it with a few creative liberties, more or less from memory, in a Starbucks one afternoon in May of 2019.

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from Tourism, released November 4, 2022
Traditional Irish

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