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FOXY MARY [1]. Irish, Jig. D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Learned by Joyce in his boyhood in Limerick, mid-1800's. Breathnach (1976) finds the first part similar to the first part of "Bímíd ag Ól (1)." A related jig is Breathnach's "Toormore Jig."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Song), 1909; No. 114, p. 58.

Recorded sources: Front Hall 018, How To Change a Flat Tire- "Traditional Music of Ireland and Shetland."

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