Annotation:Girl of the White House (The)
X:1 T:Girl of the White House, The M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Air Q:"Slow and Sad." B:Philip Goodman music manuscript collection (c. 1900) N:Goodman (d. c.1910) was one of the last known traveling pipers N:of Farney in Co. Monaghan. B:Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin – “A Hidden Ulster” (2003, p. 469) N:A version of "Cailín an Tí Bháin" Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:C G3 ABc|d2d d2c|d2A_B2G|A2G A3E|F2D F2C|C3 C3| DF2 GAB|c2G A2F|G2E F2D|F2C C3|CDE F2D|F3G3| ABc d3|c2A _B2G|A2GA2E|F2DF2C|C3C3|DF2 G3| A/G/F A/G/G3G|GAB c3|d3 d3|c2A _B2G|A2G A2E| F2D F2C|C3C3|DF2 GAB|c2GA2F|G2D F2DF2C C3||
GIRL OF THE WHITE HOUSE, THE. Irish, Slow Air (6/8 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. "The Girl of the White House" is identified by researcher Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin as a version of "Cailín an Tí Bháin." The tune was in the repertory of farmer and uilleann piper biography:Philip Goodman (d. c.1910), one of the last known traveling pipers of Farney in Co. Monaghan. Goodman played the air at the Feis Ceoil in Belfast in 1900. He also contributed tunes to the Luke Donnellan music collection (c. 1909, Oriel region).
