Annotation:Pretty Maid Milking the Cow (2)
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PRETTY MAID MILKING HER COW [2], THE (An Cailín Déas Crúite na mBó). AKA and see "Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow." Irish, Air (3/4 or 9/8 time) or Slip Jig. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Roche): AABB (O’Farrell). The tune is rendered in 6/8 time in Harding's Collection (appears as "Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow"), and as a waltz in O’Brien’s Boston-published Accordion Instructor (1949).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: P.M. Haverty (One Hundred Irish Airs vol. 1), 1858; No. 41, p. 17. O’Brien (Jerry O’Brien’s Accordion Instructor), 1949. O’Farrell (Pocket Companion), c. 1805; p. 19. Roche (Collection of Traditional Irish Music, vol. 1), 1912; No. 40, p. 20.
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