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HOW MUCH HAS SHE GOT? (An moir ata aci?) AKA and see "Sprightly Widow (The)." Irish, Double Jig (6/8 time). A Mixolydian (O'Neill/1850): A Minor (O'Neill/1001). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Irish collector wikipedia:George_Petrie_(artist) (1790-1866) also obtained two versions of a variant entitled "Girl I Love (2) (The)" that share the first strain (but differ in the second). Paul de Grae also finds two variant tunes in the O'Neill collections, "Field of Flowers (The)" and "Rivals (The)"^[1].

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - "J. O'Neill" [O'Neill]. Chicago Police Sergeant and fiddler James O'Neill, originally from County Down, served as Francis O'Neill's transcriber and collaborator on his early volumes.

Printed sources : - O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 70. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 1102, p. 208. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 293, p. 63.

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↑ Paul de Grae, "Notes on Sources of Tunes in the O'Neill Collections", 2017 [1].

[1] Paul de Grae, "Notes on Sources of Tunes in the O'Neill Collections", 2017 [1].

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