Annotation:John Blessing's Delight
Tune properties and standard notation
JOHN BLESSING'S DELIGHT. AKA and see "King (The)," "Miss Monroe's Jig," "Mrs. Monroe's Jig," "Mrs. Monroe (1)," "Mrs. Spens Monroe." Irish, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. John Blessing was a latter-20th century flute player from near Mohill, County Leitrim. The tune however, was first published under the title "Mrs. Spens Munro's Jig" by Glasgow publisher James Aird, in his Selections of Scotch, Irish, English and Foreign Airs, vol. IV (1782).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Treoir
Recorded sources: GTD Heritage Trad. HCD 008, Tommy Peoples - "Traditional Irish Music Played on the Fiddle."