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FAGAMAOID SÚD MAR ATÁ SÉ (Let Us Leave That As It Is). AKA - "Fágaimíd siúd mar atá sé." AKA and see "Let's Leave that Be," "Let Us Leave That As It Is," "Darby O'Leary," "Galbally Farmer," "Cranbally Farmer," "'Twas On the First of May Brave Boys," "First of May (1)," "Barndoor Jig (The)", "Rakes of Kildare," "Get Up Early." Irish, Scottish; Jig. A Dorian/Minor (Shields): A Major (O'Neill). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Shields): AAB (O'Neill). The tune is an early set of the double hornpipe "First of May (1) (The)." P.W. Joyce notes that the song, which has several variants in set in major-to-minor modes, was "well known all over the Munster counties." See also Bayard's (1981) No. 603, a Pennsylvania collected version generically entitled "Old March."

Source for notated version: the 1861 manuscript collection of James Goodman, an Anglican cleric who collected in County Cork [Shields].

Printed sources: Emmerson (Rantin' Pipe and Tremblin' String), 1971; No. 97, p. 168. Joyce (Ancient Irish Music), 1873; No. 13. Petrie Stanford (Complete Collection), 1903-06; Nos. 387, 1130, 1319. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 177, p. 31. O'Neill (Irish Minstrels and Musicians), 1913; p. 132. Shields (Tunes of the Munster Pipers), 1998; No. 15, p. 10.

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-'''FAGAMAOID SÚD MAR ATÁ SÉ''' (Let Us Leave That As It Is). AKA - "Fágaimíd siúd mar atá sé." AKA and see "[[Let Us Leave That As It Is]]," "[[Darby O'Leary]]," "[[Galbally Farmer]]," "[[Cranbally Farmer]]," "[['Twas On the First of May Brave Boys]]," "[[First of May (1)]]," "[[Barndoor Jig (The)]]", "[[Rakes of Kildare]]," "[[Get Up Early]]." Irish, Scottish; Jig. A Dorian/Minor (Shields): A Major (O'Neill). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Shields): AAB (O'Neill). The tune is an early set of the double hornpipe "[[First of May (1) (The)]]." P.W. Joyce notes that the song, which has several variants in set in major-to-minor modes, was "well known all over the Munster counties." See also Bayard's (1981) No. 603, a Pennsylvania collected version generically entitled "Old March."
+'''FAGAMAOID SÚD MAR ATÁ SÉ''' (Let Us Leave That As It Is). AKA - "Fágaimíd siúd mar atá sé." AKA and see "[[Let's Leave that Be]]," "[[Let Us Leave That As It Is]]," "[[Darby O'Leary]]," "[[Galbally Farmer]]," "[[Cranbally Farmer]]," "[['Twas On the First of May Brave Boys]]," "[[First of May (1)]]," "[[Barndoor Jig (The)]]", "[[Rakes of Kildare]]," "[[Get Up Early]]." Irish, Scottish; Jig. A Dorian/Minor (Shields): A Major (O'Neill). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Shields): AAB (O'Neill). The tune is an early set of the double hornpipe "[[First of May (1) (The)]]." P.W. Joyce notes that the song, which has several variants in set in major-to-minor modes, was "well known all over the Munster counties." See also Bayard's (1981) No. 603, a Pennsylvania collected version generically entitled "Old March."
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