Annotation:May Day (2)
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MAY DAY [2] (Bealltaine). AKA and see "Bealltaine," "Broadway (The)," "Dinny O'Brien's," "Five Miles from Town (2)," "Mullingar Races (2) (The)," "Phil Durkin's Favorite," "Shaskeen (The)." Irish, Hornpipe. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB.
Source for notated version: "From Mr. P. Joyce, Learnt from his father" (presumably when P.W. Joyce was a boy, in Limerick 1840's) [Stanford/Petrie].
Printed sources: Joyce (Ancient Irish Music), 1873; No. 32. Petrie-Stanford (Complete Collection), 1903-06; No. 919 (appears as untitled hornpipe).
Recorded sources:
See also listing at:
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]