Annotation:Pretty Maid Milking the Cow (2)

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PRETTY MAID MILKING HER COW [2], THE (An Cailín Deas Crúidte na mBó). AKA and see "Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow." Irish, Air (3/4 or 9/8 time) or Slip Jig. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Roche): AABB (O’Farrell). The tune is rendered in 6/8 time in Harding's Collection (appears as "Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow"), and as a waltz in O’Brien’s Boston-published Accordion Instructor (1949). Irish-American uilleann piper and stage performer Patsy Tuohey recorded the air in 1919 as "Pretty Girl Milking her Cow." See also versions under title "Cailín Deas Crúidte na mBó."

"Pretty Maid Milking Her Cow" is also a broadside ballad. Broadside lyrics go:

It was on a fine summer's morning,
When the birds sweetly sung on each bough,
I heard a young damsel a singing,
As she sat a milking her cow.
She sung with a voice so melodious,
Which made me scarce able to go,
To hear the young damsel then singing,
As she sat a milking her cow.
I right courteous then did salute her,
Saying, how my sweet am'rous maid,

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: P.M. Haverty (One Hundred Irish Airs vol. 1), 1858; No. 41, p. 17. O’Brien (Jerry O’Brien’s Accordion Instructor), 1949. O’Farrell (Pocket Companion), c. 1805; p. 19. Roche (Collection of Traditional Irish Music, vol. 1), 1912; No. 40, p. 20.

Recorded sources:

See also listing at:
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]

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