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Tune Annotations:	'''WIGS ON THE GREEN.''' AKA and see "[[Fisher's Hornpipe]]," "[[Blacksmith's Hornpipe (1) (The)]]," "[[O'Dwyer's Hornpipe (2)]]," "[[Sailor's Hornpipe (2)]]," "[[First of May (2) (The)]]." Irish, Hornpipe. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Collector P.W. Joyce says that ‘Wigs on the Green’ referred to a fight, for the obvious reason that the object is to lay low one’s opponent(s); 'There will be wigs on the green in the fair to-day.'”
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Printed sources:	Roche ('''Collection of Traditional Irish Music, vol. 3'''), 1927; No. 181, p. 63.
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