Annotation:Cock in the Heath (2)
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COCK IN THE HEATH [2]. AKA and see "Blast of Wind (A)," "Clout (The)," "Drops of Springwater," "Humors of Caledon (The)," "Humors of Westmeath," "Kiss in the Furz (1)," "Rakes of Westmeath (1) (The)." Irish, Slip Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune appears in O'Farrell's Pocket Companion for the Irish or Union Pipes (vol. II, c. 1806) as "Cock in the Heath," although as "The Clout" it had earlier been printed in one of the Neale's collections of country dances in Dublin, 1726.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: O'Farrell (Pocket Companion, vol. II), c. 1806; p. 142.
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