View source for Annotation:If There Weren't Any Women in the World

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|f_tune_annotation_title=https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:If_There_Weren't_Any_Women_in_the_World >
|f_annotation='''IF THERE WEREN'T ANY WOMEN (IN THE WORLD)'''. AKA - "[[If We Hadn't Any Women in the World]]," "[[Where Would the World Be without Women]]." Irish, Barndance (4/4 time). Ireland, County Donegal. G Major (Mulvihill): A Major (Reavy): D Major (Morrison). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB: AABB (Morrison). "If There Weren't any Women in the World" was frequently recorded in the 1920's and 1930's and still a popular barndance in County Donegal. James Morrison and Paddy Killoran both recorded it (Morrison record paired it with another barn dance he titled "[[Berrefoy (The)]]." Both strains of the tune, however, are straight out of popular British music, and is a variant of the schottische "[[Dusky Minstrel]]" by Scottish composer Felix Burns [http://boxandfiddlearchive.weebly.com/felix-burns.html] (1864-1920) (who also composed "[[Woodland Flowers]]"). 
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|f_printed_sources=Paul Deloughery ('''Sliabh Luachra on Parade'''), 1980; No. 81. James Morrison ('''How to Play the Globe Accordion'''), c. 1920’s; No. 27.  Mulvihill ('''1st Collection'''), 1986; No. 50, p. 129. Prior ('''Fionn Seisiún 3'''), 2007; p. 31.  Reavy ('''Music of Corktown'''). 
|f_recorded_sources=Columbia 33267-F (78 RPM), James Morrison (1928). Decca 12158 (78 RPM), Paddy Killoran (1938).
|f_see_also_listing=Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [http://www.irishtune.info/tune/887/]<br>
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/i07.htm#Ifthwea]<br>
Hear Paddy Killoran's 1938 recording at the Internet Archive [http://ia600401.us.archive.org/32/items/PaddyKilloranIfThereWasntAnyWomenintheWorld/Paddy_Killoran__If_There_Wasnt_Any_Women_in_the_World.mp3]<br>
Hear James Morrison's 1928 recording at the Internet Archive [http://ia600508.us.archive.org/7/items/JamesMorrisonIfWeHadntAnyWomenintheWorldTheBerrefoyBarndance/James_Morrison__If_We_Hadnt_Any_Women_in_the_World.mp3]<br>
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