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MY PRETTY MARY (Mo Maire Deas). Irish, Air (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. In his book The Scribe, a biography of James O'Neill, Caoimhin Mac Aoidh suggests that the tune could be a composition of the fiddler, named for his daughter Mary.

Source for notated version: Chicago Police Sergeant James O'Neill, a fiddler originally from County Down and Francis O'Neill's collaborator [O'Neill].

Printed sources: O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 122, p. 22.

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