Annotation:Drive the Cows Home
Tune properties and standard notation
DRIVE THE COWS HOME ("Tiomain Na M-ba 'Sa Baile" or "Tioman Na Ba a Baile"). Irish, Double Jig. A Mixolydian (O'Neill/Krassen): A Major (O'Neill/1850). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. O'Neill says that "although classed as a double jig, (it) was evidently a clan march."
Source for notated version: William McLean, "from whose piping I picked it up, (and who) played it in marching time on the Highland pipes" [O'Neill].
Printed sources: O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 26. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 806, p. 150. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 77, p. 29.
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