Annotation:Mary's Return

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MARY'S RETURN. AKA - "Fillead Máire." Irish, Air (6/8 time, "cheerful"). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A version of the first strain can also be found in Elias Howe's "Flynn's Jig" (the second strains differ).

Additional notes

Source for notated version : - "O'Neill" [O'Niell]. Chicago police sergeant James O'Neill was a fiddler originally from County Down, who served as Francis O'Neill's transcriber and collaborator on his early volumes.

Printed sources : - O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 23, p. 4.

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