Annotation:Captain McDonald's Favorite

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CAPTAIN McDONALD'S FAVORITE. AKA and see "Come Under My Dimity." Irish, Slip Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB.

Source for notated version: copied from O'Farrell's Pocket Companion (1804-10) [O'Neill].

Printed sources: Kennedy (Fiddler's Tune-Book: Slip Jigs and Waltzes), 1999; No. 11, p. 4. O'Farrell (Pocket Companion, vol. IV), c. 1810; p. 136. O'Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 194.

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