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'''SHEEP-SHEARERS, THE.''' AKA and see "[[Next Oars]]." Irish, Slip Jig or Air (9/8 time). D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Joyce obtained the melody from the large collection of an earlier musician and music collector, John Edward Pigot (1822–1871).
'''SHEEP-SHEARERS, THE.''' AKA and see "[[Esqr. Lesstar]]," "[[Next Oars]]." Irish, Slip Jig or Air (9/8 time). D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Joyce obtained the melody from the large collection of an earlier musician and music collector, John Edward Pigot (1822–1871). Curiously, the two strains of "Sheep-Shearers" form the first two strains of a four-part tune called "[[Esqr. Lesstar]]," published in London by Daniel Wright in 1715.  
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SHEEP-SHEARERS, THE. AKA and see "Esqr. Lesstar," "Next Oars." Irish, Slip Jig or Air (9/8 time). D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Joyce obtained the melody from the large collection of an earlier musician and music collector, John Edward Pigot (1822–1871). Curiously, the two strains of "Sheep-Shearers" form the first two strains of a four-part tune called "Esqr. Lesstar," published in London by Daniel Wright in 1715.

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Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 723, p. 360.

Recorded sources: -



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