Annotation:Blackbird (7)

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BLACKBIRD [7], THE. Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A reel-time setting of the air given in "Blackbird (1) (The)." The first strain is shared with "O'Connell's Trip to Parliament."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Treoir.

Recorded sources: Green Linnet 3013, The Bothy Band - "Out of the Wind and Into the Sun" (1977. Learned from Donegal fiddler John Doherty, who had the tune from his father).

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