Annotation:My Mind Will Never be Easy

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X:1 T:My Mind Will Never Be Easy R:slip jig M:9/8 K:Edor gf|:edB BAB G2A|Bdd deB dgf|edB BAB G2A||1 Bde efd egf:|2 Bde efd edB|| def g2g fed|Bdd deB d2B|def g2g fed|Bde efd edB| def g2g fed|Bdd deB d2B|deg age dBA|Bee efd e||

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MY MIND WILL NEVER BE EASY/'AISY' (Ni beid mo aigne suaimneac go deo). AKA and see "Brouges an’ Brochan an’ A'," "I Lead Such a Troublesome Life," "New Widow Well Married (1) (The)," "Tied to a Wife," "Time of Day," "Whistling Thief (The)." Irish, Slip Jig (9/8 time). E Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The ancestral tune to O'Neill's slip jig has a long history as an air and dance tune in Scotland, where it is called "<incipit title="load:Married" width=850 link="https://tunearch.org/wiki/Woo'd and Married and a'">Woo'd and Married and a'</incipit>." Paul de Grae notes that Petrie has a variant called "Time o' Day (The)", "the second part of which is the same as the first part of "My Mind will never be Aisy", but the other parts are different." See also the related slide "<incipit title="load:Dance" width=850 link="https://tunearch.org/wiki/She didn't Dance and Dance">She didn't Dance and Dance</incipit>" and the jig "<incipit title="load:Happy" width=850 link="https://tunearch.org/wiki/Happy to Meet Sorry to Part">Happy to Meet Sorry to Part</incipit>."

X:1 M:9/8 L:1/8 K:G d|B2B BAB GAB|d2d ded d2e|dBB BAB GAB|

X:1 M:6/8 L:1/8 K:Edor g2f |: e2d B2A | G2F G2A | Bdd edB | d3 dgf |

X:1 M:6/8 L:1/8 K:G dBB BAB|GEF G2A|Bee dBA|B2B gfe|