Annotation:Pretty Girl in Danger (The)
X:1 T:Pretty Girl in Danger, The M:C L:1/8 R:Reel S:James Goodman (1828─1896) music manuscript collection, S:vol. 3, p. 176. Mid-19th century, County Cork Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G A2 AG|:O DG G2 DG G2|F2 AF (cA)(BG)|DG G2 DG G2|1 BdcA BGAF:|2 fdcA BG G2|| g2 b>g g2b>g|f2 a>f f2 a>f|g2 b>g g2 b>g|agfa g2g2| bgaf gefd|defd cAFA|dggf a2 ag|fdcA BGAF!D.C.!||
PRETTY GIRL IN DANGER, THE. Irish, Reel (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B. The tune appears as "Pretty Girl in Danger" in the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper Canon biography:James Goodman. Goodman manuscripts researchers Hugh and Lisa Shield find it is cognate with "Marquis of Huntley's Reel" in Glasgow musician-publisher James Aird's Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 2 (1785, No. 101, p. 37), "Marquis of Huntly's Strathspey" in Ryan's Mammoth Collection (Boston, 1883, p. 251), and O'Neill's "Ewe Reel (The)" (Music of Ireland, 1903, No. 1229).