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|f_annotation='''SPRIGHTLY WIDOW, THE.''' AKA and see "[[How Much Has She Got?]]" Irish, Air or Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB.  O'Neill's "[[How Much Has She Got?]]" seems to be a derivative of Petrie's "Sprightly Widow," both titles perhaps referencing a song set to the tune. Paul de Grae finds variant settings in the Petrie collections as "[[Girl I Love (2) (The)]]", of which Petrie had two versions that have the same first strain but a different second strain<ref>Paul de Grae, "Notes on Sources of Tunes in the O'Neill Collections", 2017 [https://www.irishtune.info/public/oneill-sources.htm].</ref>.
|f_annotation='''SPRIGHTLY WIDOW, THE.''' AKA and see "[[How Much Has She Got?]]" Irish, Air or Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB.  O'Neill's "[[How Much Has She Got?]]" seems to be a derivative of Petrie's "Sprightly Widow," both titles perhaps referencing a song set to the tune. Paul de Grae finds variant settings in the Petrie collections as "[[Girl I Love (2) (The)]]", attributed to piper Larry Grogan, of which Petrie had two versions that have the same first strain but a different second strain<ref>Paul de Grae, "Notes on Sources of Tunes in the O'Neill Collections", 2017 [https://www.irishtune.info/public/oneill-sources.htm].</ref>.
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X:1 T:Sprightly Widow, The M:6/8 L:1/8 S:Stanford/Petrie (1905), No. 590 Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K: G g | fed cBA | ecA A2g | fed cBA | dBG G2g | fed cBA | def g2 e | agf gfe | dBG G2 || B | A2a aec | aec A2B | G2g gdB | gdB G2B | A2a aec | def g2e | agf gfe | dBG G2 ||



SPRIGHTLY WIDOW, THE. AKA and see "How Much Has She Got?" Irish, Air or Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. O'Neill's "How Much Has She Got?" seems to be a derivative of Petrie's "Sprightly Widow," both titles perhaps referencing a song set to the tune. Paul de Grae finds variant settings in the Petrie collections as "Girl I Love (2) (The)", attributed to piper Larry Grogan, of which Petrie had two versions that have the same first strain but a different second strain[1].

See also the similar "Field of Flowers (The)" and "Rivals (The)", both also in the O'Neill volumes.


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - “From Mr. Pigot’s MS” [Stanford/Petrie].

Printed sources : - Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection of Petrie's Irish Music), 1905; No. 590, p. 149.






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  1. Paul de Grae, "Notes on Sources of Tunes in the O'Neill Collections", 2017 [1].