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O'FLYNN'S FANCY (Rogha Uí Fhloinn). AKA and see "Donny Brook (1)," "I'm Over Young to Marry Yet (5)," "Over Young to Marry," "Pretty Lass (The), "Were You at the Fair?" Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B. The Scots "I'm Ow're Young to Marry" seems to be the ancestral tune, at least for the first strain of the reel.

Source for notated version: tin whistle player Jimmie McGettrick, 1968 (Bunanadden, Co. Sligo, Ireland) [Breathnach].

Printed sources: Breathnach (CRÉ II), 1976; No. 198, p. 103.

Recorded sources: Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40481, Brian Conway - "First Through the Gate" (2002).




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