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LASSES OF MELROSS, THE. AKA and see "Bliven's Favorite," "The Butchers of Bristol [1]", "By your leave, Larry Grogan," "Coppers and Brass [2]", "The County Limerick Buckhunt," "Finerty's Frolic," "Green Sleeves [3]," "Groom," "Hartigan's Fancy," "The Humors of Ennistymon [1]," "The Humours of Milltown [2]," "Larry Grogan('s) [1]", "Lasses of Melrose," "Little Fanny's Fancy," "Lynn's Favourite," "Lynny's Favourite," "Pingneacha Rua agus Pras," "Queen of the Rushes," "The Waves of Tramore," "Willie Clancy's." Irish, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune belongs to the large tune family known usually as "Larry Grogan." As "Groom" the tune is attributed by Goodman to the 18th century gentleman-piper Walker 'Piper' Jackson, of the townland of Lisdaun, parish of Ballingarry, Aughrim, County Limerick. Breathnach remarks that a version was originally printed (by John Walsh before 1736 in Country Dances Book the Second) under the title "Larry Grogan," named for another gentleman piper of the early-mid 1700's, this one from County Wexford. See notes for "Groom" and "Larry Grogan".

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs), volume II, 1785; No. 92, p. 34.

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