Annotation:Irish Lad (The)
Tune properties and standard notation
IRISH LAD('S A JOLLY BOY), THE. AKA and see "Breeches On (The)," "Irish Boy (The)," "O Those Britches Full of Stitches." Irish, Air or March (2/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A version of "Lord MacDonald's Reel (4)" and "Leather Breeches/Leather Britches" which, Petrie (1855) notes was "a favourite march of the old Irish militia bands."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Stanford-Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 473, 989, p. 252.
Recorded sources: