Annotation:Newry Prentice Boy (The)

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NEWRY PRENTICE BOY, THE. Irish, Air (6/8 time). D Major/A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The song appears occasionally in collections of Irish songs, such as Colm O'Lochlainn's More Irish Street Ballads (1965).

Source for notated version: "From (the noted Belfast sculptor) P(atrick) MacDowell [1] (1799-1870), Esq." [Stanford/Petrie].

Printed sources: Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 364, p. 92.

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