Annotation:Handsome Sally (1)
Tune properties and standard notation
HANDSOME SALLY [1]. AKA and see "Cavan Reel (The)," "Day I Met Tom Moylan (The)," "Ivy Leaf (4)," "Merry Thatcher (The)," "Mind My Border," "Mind My Brother," "Miss Kelly's Favourite," "Old Tom," "New Potatoes (The)," "Sally Grant," "Through the Heather." Irish, Reel. E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Related to "Autumn Leaves," "Paddy Carthy's Reel (2)," and "Man of the House (The)." The tune is sometimes paired with "Johnny Watt Henry's" (e.g. by Matt Molloy, and by Tony Linnane and Noel Hill).
Source for notated version: Johnnie Maguire [Ceol]; obtained by fiddler Séan McGuire from his father Jack (County Cavan), a piccolo, flute and tin whistle player [McGuire & Keegan].
Printed sources: Ceol, vol. 3, no. 1. McGuire & Keegan (Irish Tune by the 100, vol. 1), 1975; No. 59, p. 15.
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