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HEN AND ALL HER BROTH, THE. Irish, Single Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. A distanced version of the tune most familiar nowadays as the polka "Maggie in the Woods." It can also be heard played as a slides as "Echoes of Killarney" (also in Roche's volumes) and "Well I know what Kitty wants") and as a march "Nancy Wants Her Own Share."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Roche (Collection of Traditional Irish Music), 1912, vol. 2; No. 239, p. 20.

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