Annotation:Leanbh Mo Chroí

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LEANBH MO CHROÍ (Lannamacree). AKA and see "Jackson's Babby," "Jackson's Babes," "Lanamacree," "Rake's March," "Rose in Full Bloom (The)," "Tanning the Leather." Irish, Double Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Leanbh mo chroí means 'child of my heart', which is the name of an unrelated jig printed by O'Neill in his Music of Ireland (1903. See "Child of My Heart"). O'Farrell printed the tune as "Rake's March" in his first volume of Pocket Companion for the the Union Pipes (c. 1805), and County Cork cleric James Goodman included it in his c. 1865 music manscript as "Bachal an ghrinn, or The Rake's March". The jig appears under the title "Jackson's Babby" in the c. 1865 Gunn Manuscript collection from County Fermanagh, while the variant "Tanning the Leather" is to be found in the Rice-Walsh manuscript, a collection of music from the repertoire of Jeremiah Breen, a blind fiddler from North Kerry .

Source for notated version: fiddler and uilleann piper Stephen Grier (Farnaght, Co. Leitrim), who wrote his manuscripts in the 1880's [Breathnach].

Printed sources: Breathnach (CRÉ IV), 1996; No. 10, p. 7

Recorded sources: Martin Tourish & Luke Ward - "Clan Ranald" (2005).