Annotation:Humors of Last Night (The)
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HUMOURS OF LAST NIGHT, THE. Irish, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABCD (Stanford/Petrie): AABBCCDD (Kennedy, O'Farrell). A four-part set, a version of "Merrily Danced the Quaker's Wife/Merrily Kissed the Quaker's Wife" or "Merrily Danced the Quaker."
Source for notated version: "From O'Neill's collection, 1787" [Stanford/Petrie].
Printed sources:
Kennedy (Fiddler's Tune-Book: Jigs & Quicksteps, Trips & Humours), 1997; No. 66, p. 17.
O'Farrell (Pocket Companion, vol. 2), c. 1806; p. 117.
Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 477, p. 477.
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