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X:1 T:Terry Heigh Ho the Grinder [1] M:9/8 L:1/8 R:Slip Jig S:O’Neill – Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907), No. 427 Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Ador ABA A2B G3|ABA A2B d2B|ABA A2B G3|GAG GAB d2B:| gfg edc BAG|gfg efg a2f|gfg edc BAG|ABA A2B d2B| gfg edc BAG|gfg efg a2a|bag agf gfe|dBA A2B d2B||

TERRY HEIGH HO THE GRINDER [1] (Toirdealbac {Eig Og}/{Ucon an} An Meilteoir). AKA – “Tally-i-o the Grinder," "Terry the Grinder." AKA and see “Grenadiers (The),” “Grinder (The),” “'Tis little for glory I care," "Margery Grinder," "Search all the world over." Irish, Slip Jig (9/8 time). A Dorian/G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. R.M. Leavy printed a version under the title "Grinder (The)." Paul de Grae^[1] finds song settings as "Grinders (The)" (in Crosby's Irish Musical Repository, 1808, p. 253, with the first line "Search all the world high and low"), and as "Margery Grinder".

The parts of the melody are reversed in several publications.

Additional notes

Printed sources : - Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 51 (appears as "Terry Heigh"). Haverty (One Hundred Irish Airs vol. 3), 1859; No. 278, p. 138. Howe (Musician’s Omnibus No. 2), c. 1864; p. 100. Hughes (Gems from the Emerald Isles), London, 1867; No. 9, p. 3. O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 82. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 1139, p. 215. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 427, p. 84. Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 80 (appears as “Terry Heigh”).

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↑ Paul de Grae, “Notes on Sources of Tunes in the O’Neill Collections”, 2017 [1].

[1] Paul de Grae, “Notes on Sources of Tunes in the O’Neill Collections”, 2017 [1].

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