Annotation:Nancy's Branching Tresses

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NANCY'S BRANCHING TRESSES (Cuil Craobaig Anna). Irish, Air (4/4 time). F Major (O'Neill): A Major (Clinton). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Clinton): AABB (O'Neill). Paul de Grae suggests the tune may be a reworking of Edward Bunting's "Anna na Geraoibh" (Nancy of the Branching Tresses).

Source for notated version: credited to Chicago Police Sergeant James O'Neill, a fiddler originally from County Down and Francis O'Neill's collaborator [O'Neill].

Printed sources: Clinton (Gems of Ireland: 200 Airs), 1841; No. 57, p. 29O. 'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 374, p. 65.

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