Annotation:Exile's Jig
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EXILE'S JIG. AKA and see "Emigrant's Jig (The)," "New Widow Well Married (1) (The)," "Port an Deoraí." Irish, Jig (12/8 time {'A' part} and 9/8 time {'B' part}). E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Not the "Exile's Lament" in Ryan's Mammoth/Cole's 1000. The composition has been attributed to bouzouki player Johnny Moynahan, recorded with his group Sweeney's Men. It appears as "New Widow Well Married (1) (The)" in Frank Roche's Collection of Traditional Irish Music, vol. 2 (1912).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Sullivan (Session Tunes), vol. 2; No. 46, p. 19. Vallely (Learn to Play the Tin Whistle with the Armagh Pipers Club), vol. 2; 10.
Recorded sources: