Annotation:Maids of Mourne Shore (The)

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MAIDS OF (THE) MOURNE SHORE, THE. AKA and see "Down by the Sally Gardens (2)," "Mourne Shore (2) (The)," "Sally Gardens (2)." Irish, Air (4/4 time). A Major (Roche, Stanford/Petrie): G Major (Johnson). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Roche, Stanford/Petrie): AAB (Johnson). The tune is one of the melodies to which the song "Sally Gardens" is set. George Petrie notes that his version was collected in County Derry in 1834. The melody also appears in Hoffman's 1877 collection of selected arrangements of the George Petrie collection (1855).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Johnson (The Kitchen Musician No. 5: Mostly Irish Airs), 1985 (revised 2000); p. 9. Roche (Collection of Traditional Irish Music, vol. 3), 1927; No. 50, p. 14. Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1902; No. 302, p. 75.

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