Annotation:If I Had a Wife (2)
Tune properties and standard notation
IF I HAD A WIFE [2]. AKA and see "Mad Dancing," "Nellie Mahony's Slide (1)." Irish, Slide (12/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Source O'Leary maintained the Chieftains obtained this tune from himself and fiddler Denis Murphy as well as many others after being visited by Sean Keane and Paddy Moloney.
Source for notated version: accordion player Johnny O'Leary (Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border), recorded in 1985 at Kenmare [Moylan].
Printed sources: Breathnach (CRÉ II), 1976; No. 70. Ceol, vol 2, No. 4 (appears as "A Single"). Moylan (Johnny O'Leary), 1994; No. 128, p. 75. Tubridy (Irish Traditional Music, vol. 1), 1999; p. 26.
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