Annotation:How are you now my maid?

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HOW ARE YOU NOW, MY MAID? AKA and see "Fear Mór (An)," "Is the Big Man Within?," "Merry Tailor (The)." Irish, Jig (9/8 time 'A' part & 6/8 time 'B' part). G Major. Standard tuing (fiddle). AB. Learned by collector P.W. Joyce as a boy in Limerick. The air was also entered into the mid-19th century music manuscript collection (vol. 2, p. 170) of Canon James Goodman, as well with the title "How are you now, my maid?" but with parts reversed from Joyce. The melody appears in Frank Roche's collection as "Fear Mór (An)."

Source for notated version: James Goodman (1828-1896) entered the tune into his manuscript, having obtained it from the music manuscript collections of Seán Ó Dálaigh (John O'Daly, 1800-1878), the great nineteenth-century scribe; compiler and collector of manuscripts; editor; anthologist; publisher of Gaelic verse and stories and founder of societies for the publication of Gaelic literature, best-known today for his volume ‘’’Poets and Poetry of Munster’’’ (1849). O’Daly was born in the Sliabh gCua area of west Waterford and was, like Goodman, a teacher of Irish.

Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Song), 1909; No. 137, p. 70.

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