Annotation:Mrs. MacDonald (1)
X:1 T:Mrs. MacDonald [1] M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Slow Air B:Kerr – Merry Melodies, vol. 1, p. 48 (c. 1880’s) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D d/e/|f>ed dBA|AFA AFA|f>ed d<af|fee e2d/e/| f>ed dBA|AFA AFA|d<af e>de|fdd d2:| |:A/G/|FAd dfd|Ace ege|FAd da>f|bee e2f/g/| afd dfd|ecA A2A|FAd ede|fdd d2||
MRS. MACDONALD [1]. AKA - "Mrs. McDonald." AKA and see “Island of Mull (The)," "Maid of Glenconnel (The)," "Storyteller (The).” Scottish, Slow Air (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Researcher Lisa Shields identifies "Mrs. McDonald" as a variant of "Flora MacDonald." "Mrs. McDonald" is contained in Book 4 of the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper wikipedia:James_Goodman_(musicologist). Francis O'Neill printed the tune as "Storyteller (The)" in his Music of Ireland (1903).
