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NELL FLAHERTY'S DRAKE (Bardal Eiblin Ni Flaitbeartaig). AKA and see "My Name it is Nell," "Widow's Curse (The)." Irish, Double Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A humorous song goes to the melody, which Francis O'Neill heard "sung in the old homestead" as a boy in County Cork, in the mid-19th century. He says a still-older song went to the air which begins:

My name is Poll Doodle, I work with my needle,
And if I had money 'tis apples I'd buy;
I'd go down in the garden and stay there till morning,
And whistle for Johnny, the gooseberry boy.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 74. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 763, p. 142. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 44, p. 24. Roche (Collection of Traditional Irish Music, vol. 3), 1927; No. 105, p. 32.

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