Annotation:Squire Parsons
X:1 T:Squire Parsons M:C| L:1/8 R:Air C:O’Carolan (1670-1738) K:G G4 D2 GA|BABc B2G2|d2d2d2 ef|geag f2d2| b4 a2 gf|gefg a^cde|fgfg fagf|Te3d d4|| a4 f4|egfe ^d2B2|bfga bagf|f4 e2 Bc| d2d2d2 cB|c2c2c2 BA|BAGA BcdB|A3G G4||
SQUIRE PARSON'S. Irish, Air of Planxty. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (O’Sullivan): AABB (Barnes). The tune is attributed to blind Irish harper Wikipedia:Turlough_O'Carolan (1670-1738), although Carolan researcher Donal O’Sullivan, in his definitive 1958 work on the bard could find no incontrovertible evidence of its origin. The air, as “Squire Parsons March,” appears in an unidentified volume issued by London music publisher Daniel Wright c. 1735 (unknown title as the cover is missing) held in the Wighton Collection, Dundee Public Library. If Carolan did composed the tune, believes O’Sullivan, it was probably for William Parsons of Garadice, County Leitrim, near Ballinamore. “Caroloan must have known the squire,” writes O’Sullivan, “because he would pass through Garadice on his way home to Mohill from the Maguires of Tempo.” Squire Parsons (who died in March, 1730) lived in Garadice House on the shore of Lake Garadice.
