Annotation:Buachaillín Buí (An)

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BUACHAILLÍN BUÍ, AN (The Yellow Little Boy). AKA and see "Come in the Evening," "Galloway Tom (2)," "Galway Tom (1)," "Galway Town," "Goats' Horns (The)," "Kelso Races," "Lark in the Morning (1)," "Little Yellow Boy (The)," "One-Legged Man (The)," "Spotted Cow (The)," "Thrush's Nest (The)," "Welcome (The)," "Western Lilt (A)," "Yellow Little Boy (The)." Irish, Double Jig. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABCD (Breathnach): AABB (O'Neill). The tune is best-known under the title "Lark in the Morning." Breathnach states he took the name from the version published by O'Farrell in Collection of National Irish Music for the Union Pipes (c. 1797) and finds two more versions by O'Farrell in the latter's Pocket Companion.

Source for notated version: fiddler Tommy Potts (Ireland) [Breathnach].

Printed sources: Breathnach (CRÉ I), 1963; No. 27, p. 12. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 706, p. 131.

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