Annotation:Maid of Athens

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MAID OF ATHENS. AKA and see "Heathery Cruach (2)," "Hornless Cow (1) (The)," "Maid (The)," "Maid that Dare Not Tell (The)." American (originally Irish), Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. New York musician, writer and researcher Don Meade finds the tune a "primitive version of (the Irish reel) 'Dowd's No. 9', and was recorded by Donegal melodeon player Tom Doherty as 'Maid I Daren't Tell (The)'." "Maid of Athens," notes Don, is a poem by Lord Byron:

Maid of Athens, ere we part,
Give, oh, give back my heart!

An untitled reel in Book 2 of County Leitrim musician Stephen Grier's c. 1883 music manuscript collection is cognate in the first strain and similar in the second (see "Reel (61)").

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