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"Pretty Maid Milking Her Cow" is also a broadside ballad [[Roud Number: 3139]]. Broadside lyrics [http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/static/images/sheets/15000/10075.gif] begin: | "Pretty Maid Milking Her Cow" is also a popular broadside ballad [[Roud Number: 3139]], widely disseminated. Broadside lyrics [http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/static/images/sheets/15000/10075.gif] begin: | ||
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The song was incorporated into stage and screen works, such as Irish playwright Dion Bourcicalt's melodrama of the '''The Colleen Bawn, or The Brides of Garryowen''' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colleen_Bawn], first staged in New York in 1860. Hollywood songstress Judy Garland sang a version of the song (in a swing setting) of "Cailín Deas Crúite na mBó" for the movie '''Little Nelly Kelly''' (1940). Garland reprised the song in July, 1951, when she was booked for sell-out concerts at Dublin's Theatre Royal. It was also in a Universal musical in 1942. The film was called "Strictly In The Groove". | |||
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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 popular broadside ballad Roud Number: 3139, widely disseminated. Broadside lyrics [1] begin:
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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,
I am your captive slave for the future.
The song was incorporated into stage and screen works, such as Irish playwright Dion Bourcicalt's melodrama of the The Colleen Bawn, or The Brides of Garryowen [2], first staged in New York in 1860. Hollywood songstress Judy Garland sang a version of the song (in a swing setting) of "Cailín Deas Crúite na mBó" for the movie Little Nelly Kelly (1940). Garland reprised the song in July, 1951, when she was booked for sell-out concerts at Dublin's Theatre Royal. It was also in a Universal musical in 1942. The film was called "Strictly In The Groove".
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 [3]