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MAID IN THE MORNING, THE. AKA - "Maids in the Morning." Irish, Jig. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. A composition attributed to the famous 18th century gentleman musician uilleann piper Walker 'Piper' Jackson, of the townland of Lisduan, in the parish of Ballingarry, Limerick. The tune was first published by Samuel Lee in Dublin c. 1774 in Jackson's Celebrated Irish Tunes, a volume reprinted in 1790.

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

Printed sources: Aird (Aird's 6th and Last Volume of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs), c. 1803; p. 53. O'Farrell (Pocket Companion, vol. II), c. 1806; p. 104. O'Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 149.

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