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NEVER WED AN OLD MAN. Irish, Air (3/4 time). Ireland, County Limerick. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. See also versions of the song as "Oh what shall I do with this silly old man," "Young wife and her old husband (1) (The)," and "An old man courted me." The tune is identified as having been collected in County Limerick in Stanford/Petrie.

Source for notated version: [The Irish collector] "Mr. [P.W.] Joyce" [Stanford/Petrie].

Printed sources: Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 531, p. 134.

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