Annotation:Kitty got her clinking
KITTY GOT HER CLINKING. Irish, Reel (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune appears in the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper Canon biography:James Goodman. Goodman manuscript researchers Hugh and Lisa Shield find the tune cognate with William Reeve's "Soldier's dance after the battle", from the 1791 pantomime Oscar & Malvina. That tune was published in Glasgow musician and publisher James Aird's Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 4 (1796). A close variant of Goodman's reel was printed in Boston, Mass., by Elias Howe (also as "Kitty got her clinking") in his Musician's Omnibus Nos. 6 & 7 (1880-1882, p. 628).
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