Annotation:Munster Rake (The)

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MUNSTER RAKE, THE. Irish, Slip Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune belongs "Drunken Gauger (1)," "Girls take care how you marry," "Give Us a Drink of Water (2)," "Just at the height of her bloom/Just in the height of her bloom," "Noggin of Cream (The)," "Old woman's consort (The)," "Taim in Arrears," "Taim in Arreir dTigh an Oil," "Seanduine Coileailte (An)," "Silly Old Man (1) (The)," "Swaggering Jig (1) (The)," "Tiggit along the Room," "Welcome the Piper."

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

Printed sources: Colclough (Tutor for the Irish Union Pipes), c. 1830; p. 18. Mulvihill (1st Collection), 1986; No. 9, p. 108. O'Farrell (Pocket Companion, vol. IV), c. 1810; p. 131. O'Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 196.

Recorded sources:

See also listings at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources []
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info []

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