Annotation:Buachaillín Buí (An)
X:1 T:Yellow Little Boy, The T:Buacaillin Buide An T:Buachaillín Buí, An M:6/8 L:1/8 S:O'Neill - Music of Ireland (1903), No. 706 Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:D AFD DFA | DFA AdB | AFD DFA | B2A BdB | AFD DFA | DFA ABc | def gfe | fdB B2d :| |: Add fdd | edd fdd | Add fdd |edB B2d | Add fdd | edd fdd | gfe fdB | AFA B2d :||
BUACHAILLÍN BUÍ, AN (The Yellow Little Boy). AKA and see "Come in the Evening," "Galloway Tom (2)," "Galway Tom (1)," "Galway Town," "Goats' Horns (The)," "Kelso Races," "Lark in the Morning (1)," "Little Yellow Boy (The)," "One-Legged Man (The)," "Spotted Cow (The)," "Thrush's Nest (The)," "Welcome (The)," "Western Lilt (A)," "Yellow Little Boy (The)." Irish, Double Jig (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABCD (Breathnach): AABB (O'Neill). The tune is a member of the family of tunes that make up the four-part session warhorse "Lark in the Morning (1)," and is close to (but not identical with) "Goats' Horns (The)." Breathnach states he took the name from the version published by piper O'Farrell in Collection of National Irish Music for the Union Pipes (c. 1797) and finds two more versions by O'Farrell in the latter's Pocket Companion.
