Annotation:Green Fields to America (The)
Tune properties and standard notation
GREEN FIELDS TO AMERICA, THE. AKA and see "The Barrow Castle," "Belles of Tipperary (2)," "Blea-berry Blossom," "Connacht Lasses," "The Connacht Star," "The Dandy Girl/Lass/Lasses," "The Four Courts of Dublin," "Jackson's Welcome to Cork [1]," "Johnny Shooting in the Glen," "Kerry Star," "Lamont's Reel," "Mel Roddy's Tune" (northeast Kings County, PEI), "Miss Mona(g)han('s Reel)," "New Policeman [1]," "O'Connell in Clare," "Shannon's Shores," "Stormy Weather [1]," "White-haired Piper (The)." Irish (originally), Canadian; Reel. Canada, Prince Edward Island. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Not the more famous Irish tune "Greenfields of America (1)," though the confusion is understandable. Breathnach (1996) says the title is a miss-naming in Darley & McCall's Feis Ceoil Collection of Traditional Irish Music (1914), of the tune usually known as "Miss Monaghan."
Source for notated version: miller and fiddler Nicholas Furlong, 1886 (Mill of Rags, Duncormick, County Wexford, Ireland) [Darley & McCall]; Archie Stewart (b. 1917, Milltown Cross, South Kings County, Prince Edward Island) [Perlman].
Printed sources: Darley & McCall (Feis Ceóil Collection of Irish Music), 1914; No. 71, p. 32. Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 70 (appears as "The Green Fields of America").
Recorded sources: