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LONDON LASSES [2]. Irish, Reel. B Minor ('A' part) & D Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB. The melody appears in the Sutherland manuscript collection of County Leitrim. This is not the tune usually known as "London Lasses" today (see "[[London Lasses (1)'), explains New York writer, researcher and musician Don Meade, but rather a variant of O'Neill's "Curragh Races (1)." Confusingly, he continues, "Curragh Races" is printed by Breathnach as "Maid in the Cherry Tree [1]," a name that is also applied sometimes to the other London Lasses ([1]). Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 28. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 54. Drumlin Records, The McNamara Family - "Leitrim's Hidden Treasures" (1999).

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