Annotation:My Mind Will Never be Easy
X:1 T:My Mind Will Never Be Easy R:slip jig M:9/8 K:Edor gf|:edB BAB G2A|Bdd deB dgf|edB BAB G2A||1 Bde efd egf:|2 Bde efd edB|| def g2g fed|Bdd deB d2B|def g2g fed|Bde efd edB| def g2g fed|Bdd deB d2B|deg age dBA|Bee efd e||
MY MIND WILL NEVER BE EASY/'AISY' (Ni beid mo aigne suaimneac go deo). AKA and see "Brouges an’ Brochan an’ A'," "I Lead Such a Troublesome Life," "New Widow Well Married (1) (The)," "Tied to a Wife," "Time of Day," "Whistling Thief (The)." Irish, Slip Jig (9/8 time). E Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The ancestral tune to O'Neill's slip jig has a long history as an air and dance tune in Scotland, where it is called "<incipit title="load:Married" width=850 link="https://tunearch.org/wiki/Woo'd and Married and a'">Woo'd and Married and a'</incipit>." Paul de Grae notes that Petrie has a variant called "Time of Day", "the second part of which is the same as the first part of "My Mind will never be Aisy", but the other parts are different."[1] See also the related slide "<incipit title="load:Dance" width=850 link="https://tunearch.org/wiki/She didn't Dance and Dance">She didn't Dance and Dance</incipit>" and the jig "<incipit title="load:Happy" width=850 link="https://tunearch.org/wiki/Happy to Meet Sorry to Part">Happy to Meet Sorry to Part</incipit>."
X:1 M:9/8 L:1/8 K:G d|B2B BAB GAB|d2d ded d2e|dBB BAB GAB|
X:1 M:6/8 L:1/8 K:Edor g2f |: e2d B2A | G2F G2A | Bdd edB | d3 dgf |
X:1 M:6/8 L:1/8 K:G dBB BAB|GEF G2A|Bee dBA|B2B gfe|
- ↑ Paul de Grae, "Notes on Sources of Tunes in the O'Neill Collections", 2017.