Annotation:John Doe

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JOHN DOE. AKA and see "MacKenna's Dream," "Old Vest and Cravat (The)." Irish, Air (4/4 time). Ireland, County Kerry. E Flat Major (Stanford/Petrie): D Major (Goodman). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Stanford/Petrie): AABB (Goodman). See also Petrie's other settings of "John Doe," under the titles "Ir iomada yeoman malluigte do till a dogad" and "Péltan leanbac (An)." The tune was entered into vol. 2 of the mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper James Goodman.

Source for notated version: "A Kerry tune From Frank Keane" [Stanford/Petrie].

Printed sources: Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 738, p. 185.

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