Annotation:My Darling Fair Maid

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MY DARLING FAIR MAID (Mo Cailin Fionn Dileas). Irish, Hornpipe. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Researcher Fr. John Quinn finds O'Neill's "My Darling Fiar Maid" to be a common tune setting of the triple-time air of "Margaret Sheehan." "'Colleen Fune'", explains Fr. John Quinn, "Anglicisation of “cailín fionn”, i. e., fair maid," and Fr. Quinn finds O'Neill's "My Darling Fair Maid" to be a setting of the same tune in common time.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 195. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 1690, p. 314.

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