Annotation:Galway Girls (The)
Tune properties and standard notation
GALWAY GIRLS, THE. AKA and see "A' the Way to Galloway," "All the Way to Galway (1)," "High Way to Galloway," "March of the Tribes to Galway (The)," "Road to Lisdoonvarna (2) (The)," "Sarsfield March," "Slash away the Pressing Gang," "Yankee Doodle Dandy." Irish, March (2/4 time). E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Breathnach finds the earliest publication of the tune to be in James Aird's collection under the title "Galway Girls." "The Road to Lisdoonvarna" is a variant.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs), vol. II, 1785; No. 155, p. 57.
Recorded sources: