Annotation:I'll Go Home and Tell My Mother

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I'LL GO HOME AND TELL MY MOTHER. Irish, Air (6/8 time). D Minor ('A' part) & F Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. See also the related "Fairly Shot of Her (1)," and "Good Night."

Source for notated version: "A.P.'s manuscript book" [Joyce].

Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Song), 1909; No. 737, p. 365.

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