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X:1 T:Irish Air T:Irish Jig [4] M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig or Air B:Aird – Sixth and Last Volume of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs (1803, No. 108, p. 42) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion N:Appears as untitled jig in Köhler's Violin Repository, vol. 2 K:G B3 {B}AGA|G>AG GBd|e>fg dcB|cAA {B}AGA| B3 {B}A>GA|G>AG GBd|e>fg dgB|TA3 G3:|| B>cd ddd|d>e=f e^fg|d>cB {c}B>AG|F>GA ABc| B>cd ddd|d>e=f e>^fg|{e}d>cB {c}B>AG|AFA !fermata!c3| B3 {B}AGA|G>AG GBd|e>fg dcB|cAA {B}AGA| B3 A>GA|G>AG GBd|e>fg dgB|A3 G3:|]

IRISH JIG [4]. AKA and see "Flaming O'Flanigan's," "Nothing Can Sadden Us." Irish, Jig or Air (6/8 time). G Major (Aird): D Major (Laybourn). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune appears as an untitled piece in Glasgow musician James Aird's Selection vol. 6 (1803, "Irish Air") and W.B. Laybourn's Köhler's Violin Repository, vol. 2 (c. 1883, "Irish Jig"). Fr. John Quinn finds the melody as the vehicle for Thomas Moore's song "Nothing Can Sadden Us," and, in the American Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883), as "Flaming O'Flanigan's."

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Printed sources : - Aird (Sixth and Last Volume of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs), 1803; No. 108, p. 42. Laybourn (Köhler's Violin Repository, vol. 2), 1881-1885; p. 152.

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