Annotation:Ain Kind Dearie

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AIN KIND DEARIE. AKA and see "Lea Rig (The)," "My Ain Kind Dearie." Scottish, English; Reel. England, Northumberland. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was known, as are many Scots tunes, in County Donegal, Ireland, as evidenced by the old diary entry of a fiddler named William Allingham, employed as a customs officer but whose vocation was traditional music. He visited a poor fiddler named Tom Read in the (probably Ballyshannon) poorhouse who played for him both "Ain Kind Dearie" and "Paudeen O Rafferty" in November of 1847, the time of the famine. Allingham gave George Petrie several tunes which appear in the latter's collection of Irish music. The title is from the lines to a song set to the tune:

I'll Lay Thee O'er the lea rig,
My ain kind dearie O'

Source for notated version: William Vickers' 1770 music manuscript collection (Northumberland) [Seattle].

Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 408. Hall & Stafford (Charlton Memorial Tune Book), 1956; p. 62. Johnson (Scottish Fiddle Music in the 18th Century), 1984; Nos. 37 & 67. Northumbrian Pipers' Tune Book, 1970; p. 1. Seattle (Great Northern/William Vickers), 1987, Part 2; No. 294.

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