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X:1
T:Irish Hop Pickers, The (Irish)
M:9/8
L:1/8
R:Slip Jig
Q:"Allegretto"
B:Thomas Wilson - A Companion to the Ball Room (London, 1816, p. 27)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:G
G2A B2c dBG|A2B c2d e3|G2A B2c dBG|d2g dBG A3:|
|:d2g gag fed|efe gfe|d2B|cdc edc BdG|E2E FEF G3:|]
IRISH HOP PICKERS, THE. AKA - "Hop Pickers," "Buttermilk and Praties (2)." Irish, Slip Jig (9/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody also appears in Edward Riley's Flute Melodies, vol. 3 (New York, 1820).
Additional notes
Source for notated version : - copied from (London dancing master Thomas) Wilson's Companion to the Ballroom (1816) [O'Neill].
Printed sources : - Hughes (Gems from the Emerald Isle), c. 1860's, No. 56, p. 14 (appears as "Hop Pickers"). Kennedy (Fiddler's Tune-Book: Slip Jigs and Waltzes), 1999; No. 34, p. 9. O'Flannagan (The Hibernia Collection), 1860; p. 4 (Boston, Elias Howe). O'Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 185. Wilson (Companion to the Ball Room), 1816; p. 27.
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