Annotation:Wigs on the Green

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WIGS ON THE GREEN. AKA and see "Fisher's Hornpipe," "Blacksmith's Hornpipe (1) (The)," "O'Dwyer's Hornpipe (2)," "Sailor's Hornpipe (2)," "First of May (2) (The)." Irish, Hornpipe. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Collector P.W. Joyce says that ‘Wigs on the Green’ referred to a fight, for the obvious reason that the object is to lay low one’s opponent(s); 'There will be wigs on the green in the fair to-day.'”

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Roche (Collection of Traditional Irish Music, vol. 3), 1927; No. 181, p. 63.

Recorded sources:

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