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|f_annotation='''MAID OF ATHENS.''' American, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. New York musician, writer and researcher Don Meade finds the tune a "primitive version of (the Irish reel) '[[Dowd's No. 9]]', and was recorded by Donegal melodeon player Tom Doherty as '[[Maid I Daren't Tell (The)]]'." "Maid of Athens," notes Don, is a poem by Lord Byron:
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'''MAID OF ATHENS.''' American, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. New York musician, writer and researcher Don Meade finds the tune a "primitive version of (the Irish reel) '[[Dowd's No. 9]]', and was recorded by Donegal melodeon player Tom Doherty as '[[Maid I Daren't Tell (The)]]'." "Maid of Athens," notes Don, was a poem by Lord Byron:
 
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''Maid of Athens, ere we part,''<br>
''Maid of Athens, ere we part,''<br />
''Give, oh, give back my heart!''<br>
''Give, oh, give back my heart!''<br />
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An untitled reel in Book 2 of County Leitrim musician [[biography:Stephen Grier]]'s c. 1883 music manuscript collection is cognate in the first strain and similar in the second (see "[[Reel (61)]]").
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|f_printed_sources=Cole ('''1000 Fiddle Tunes'''), 1940; p. 21. '''Ryan's Mammoth Collection''', 1883; p. 46. '''White's Unique Collection''', 1896; No. 73, p. 13.
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''Printed sources'': Cole ('''1000 Fiddle Tunes'''), 1940; p. 21. '''Ryan's Mammoth Collection''', 1883; p. 46. '''White's Unique Collection''', 1896; No. 73, p. 13.
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MAID OF ATHENS. American, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. New York musician, writer and researcher Don Meade finds the tune a "primitive version of (the Irish reel) 'Dowd's No. 9', and was recorded by Donegal melodeon player Tom Doherty as 'Maid I Daren't Tell (The)'." "Maid of Athens," notes Don, is a poem by Lord Byron:


Maid of Athens, ere we part,
Give, oh, give back my heart!

An untitled reel in Book 2 of County Leitrim musician biography:Stephen Grier's c. 1883 music manuscript collection is cognate in the first strain and similar in the second (see "Reel (61)").


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Printed sources : - Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 21. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 46. White's Unique Collection, 1896; No. 73, p. 13.





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