Annotation:Hibernia's Lovely Jane

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HIBERNIA'S LOVELY JANE. Irish, Air (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The more elaborate version of O'Farrell's air appears in the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection (vol. 3, p. 149) of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper Canon biography:James Goodman under the title “Lovely Jane (2)” (or "Lovely June").

Source for notated version: "From the Rev. Maxwell H. Close of Dublin: taken down by him in 1836 from the singing of Pat Walker, a Wicklow man" (Joyce).

Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 205, p. 101.

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