Annotation:Ain Kind Dearie

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 reel is also printed in Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 408 and Seattle (William Vickers), 1987, Part 2; No. 294 (appears as "Own Kind Deary O").