Annotation:Maid of Athens

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MAID OF ATHENS. American, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. New York musician, writer and researcher Don Meade finds the tune a "primitive version of (the Irish reel) 'Dowd's No. 9', and was recorded by Donegal melodeon player Tom Doherty as 'Maid I Daren't Tell (The)'." "Maid of Athens," notes Don, is a poem by Lord Byron:

Maid of Athens, ere we part,
Give, oh, give back my heart!

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 21. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 46. White's Unique Collection, 1896; No. 73, p. 13.

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