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MERRY HAY HAYMAKERS. AKA and see "Foree (The)," "Haymakers Jig (2)." English, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The first strain is similar to "Love and Hospitality", printed in O'Neill's Music of Ireland (1903).

Source for notated version: the c. 1845-47 music manuscript collection of Ellis Knowles, a musician from Radcliffe, Lancashire, England [Plain Brown].

Printed sources: Doyle (Plain Brown Tune Book), 1997; p. 21.

Recorded sources:




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