Annotation:Mother Carey's
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MOTHER CAREY'S. AKA and see "Templehouse Reel (The)." Irish, American; Reel. E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Mother Carey" was a Davy Jones-like personification of the ocean's dangers (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Carey).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: White's Unique Collection, 1896; No. 86, p. 15.
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