Annotation:Pretty Polly (3)
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PRETTY POLLY [3]. Irish, Slow Air (3/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part.
Source for notated version: "'Mr. MacDowell: Belfast, 1846,'" via the County Cork collector William Forde (c.1759–1850) [Joyce]. Patrick MacDowell [1] (1799–1870) was a very successful Belfast-born sculptor.
Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 548, p. 291.
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