Also known as The Breeches Full Of Stitches, The Irish Lad’s A Jolly Boy, O The Britches Full Of Stitches, Oh The Breeches Full Of Stitches, Oh The Britches Full Of Stitches, Oh! The Breeches Full Of Stitches, Oh! The Britches Full Of Stitches, Witches’ Britches.
I’m a fifty-something German trad musician building an Irish repertoire on the whistle as a retirement project.
I can read music but I realised learning ITM is much easier without the dot-detour.
If I start working on a tune from dots it takes me much longer to learn it by heart than when I absorb it from ABC notation. The quickest way I’ve come across so far is to learn tunes by color-coded ABC reducing the structure as much as possible. 
