Annotation:Pretty Maid Milking the Cow (2)
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PRETTY MAID MILKING HER COW [2], THE (An Cailín Deas Crúidte na mBó). AKA and see "Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow." Irish, Air (3/4 or 9/8 time) or Slip Jig. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Roche): AABB (O’Farrell). The tune is rendered in 6/8 time in Harding's Collection (appears as "Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow"), and as a waltz in O’Brien’s Boston-published Accordion Instructor (1949). Irish-American uilleann piper and stage performer Patsy Tuohey recorded the air in 1919 as "Pretty Girl Milking her Cow." See also versions under title "Cailín Deas Crúidte na mBó."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: P.M. Haverty (One Hundred Irish Airs vol. 1), 1858; No. 41, p. 17. O’Brien (Jerry O’Brien’s Accordion Instructor), 1949. O’Farrell (Pocket Companion), c. 1805; p. 19. Roche (Collection of Traditional Irish Music, vol. 1), 1912; No. 40, p. 20.
Recorded sources:
See also listing at:
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]