Annotation:Yellow Legs

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YELLOW LEGS (Cosa Buide). AKA – “Yellow Leggings.” AKA and see “Cogue in the Evening,” “Cosa Buidhe Arda Dearga,” “Cusabue Ord.” Irish, Slip Jig. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC (Kennedy): AABBCCDD (O’Neill). The tune appears in the Goodman manuscripts (IV, pp. 4-5) as “Cogue in the Evening,” attributed to the famous 18th century uilleann piper Walker ‘Piper’ Jackson, of the townland of Lisdaun, parish of Ballingarry, Aughrim, County Limerick. See also O’Farrell’s (c. 1805) version and note for the tune, under the title “Cusabue Ord.”

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Kennedy (Fiddler’s Tune-Book: Slip Jigs and Waltzes), 1999; No. 90, p. 21. O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 81. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 1130, p. 213. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 419, p. 83.

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