Annotation:Frog in the Well (1) (The)
Tune properties and standard notation
FROG IN THE WELL [1], THE. AKA and see "Close to the Floor (1)," "Father Tom's Wager," Irish, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. "Close to the Floor," the name in Ryan's Mammoth Collection/Coles 1000, is the title that Gweedore, County Donegal, fiddler Danny O'Donnell recorded the tune under in 1939.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources:
Recorded sources: Columbia 78 RPM, Francis Cashin and Tom Cawley (1929). Ossian OSS-21, Rose Murphy - "Milltown Lass" (1977. Originally recorded for Topic Records when she was 76 years old. Murphy played old-style melodeon, and her brother was the noted box-player P. J. Conlon. She supposedly played when younger, but stopped for forty years while she raised a family, only to resume playing later).
See also listings at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [2]