Annotation:Sailor Lassie (The)

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X:1 T:Sailor Lassie, The M:9/8 L:1/8 R:Slip Jig B:Robert Bremner – “For the year 1769 a collection of scots reels, or country dances” (p. 107) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:C F|(E/F/G)E c>dc TB2G|(A/B/c)A GEC D2F|(E/F/G)E c>dc TB2G|(A/B/c)A GEC C2:| e|c2c (e/f/g)e gec|(e/f/g)e afd d2e|c2c (e/f/g)e gec|(e/f/g)e gec c2e| c2c (e/f/g)e gec|(e/f/g)e afd d2e|cGc edc TB>AG|(A/B/c)A GEC C2||

SAILOR LASSIE, THE. AKA and see "Dollie's the Girl for me," Miss Margaret MacGregor’s Favourite,” "Polly the Lass," “Tadg O Flaherty.” Scottish, Slip Jig (9/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Robert Bremner's 1768 2nd collection (p. 107). James Aird printed another version of the tune in his fourth collection under the title "Miss Margaret MacGregor’s Favourite," and it was entered into the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of Canon James Goodman (County Cork) as "Tadg O Flaherty."

Additional notes

Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 3), 1788; No. 517, p. 198.

Recorded sources: - Marquis Classis, The Toronto Consort - "All in a Garden Green" (2013).