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X:1 T:Molly What Ails You? M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel S:O'Neill - Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907), No. 652 Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:D FG|A3F ABde|fdgf edBd|A2 AF ABde|fgef d2 dB| ABAF ABde|fd d2 edBd|A2 AF ABde|egec d2|| de|faaf gbbg|afef dB B2|faaf gbbg|afef d2 de| faaf gbbg|afef dBBd|A2 AF ABde|fgec d2||

MOLLY WHAT AILS YOU? (A Maire Cad Ta Ort?). AKA and see "Berkshire Heights," "Fred Finn's (1)/Freddy Finn's (1)," "You’re Right My Love." Irish, Reel or Fling. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (O'Neill/1850 & 1001): AA'BB' (O'Neill/Krassen). See also "Streancan an iascaire," "Siege of Ennis (1) (The)," "Lady Mary Lindsay" ('A' part only), "Pretty Girls of the Village (1)," "Old John's Jig" (Phort Shean tSeain) {second turn only}. The melody of O'Neill's "Molly What Ails You?" bears a great similarity to "Kerryman's Daughter (1) (The)" aka "Cunningham's Fancy" and the many related melodies (see note for "annotation:Freedom for Ireland"). Paul de Grae observes that the source for O'Neill's "Molly what Ails You?" seems to be William Bradbury Ryan's "Banks of Enverness (The)" (for which see "Banks of Inverness"^[1]

Additional notes

Printed sources : - O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 134. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 1413, p. 262. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 652, p. 117.

See also listing at :
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]

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↑ Paul de Grae, "Sources of Tunes in the O'Neill Collections" (2017).

[1] Paul de Grae, "Sources of Tunes in the O'Neill Collections" (2017).

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