Annotation:Pretty Girls of Mayo
X:1 T:Pretty Girls of Mayo, The M:4/4 L:1/8 R:reel Z:Andrew Pickering K:G DG G2 A2 de | fdge fdcA | G2 FG Adde | fdcA BGAF | DG G2 A2 de | fdge fdcA | G2 FG Adde | fdcA AG G2 || g2ge fdde | fdge fdde | g2 ge fdde | fdcA AG~G2 | g2ge fdde | fdge fdd^c | defg abag | fdcA BGAF ||
PRETTY GIRLS OF MAYO (Cailíní deasa Mhuigheo). AKA and see "Lady Jane Gray's Reel," "Limerick Lasses," “Music in the Forge,” “My Sweetheart Jane,” "Peigín Leitir Mór," "Sweeney's Reel," "Sweet Biddy of Ballyvourney," “Tameen's Reel," "Top of the Morning.” Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Breathnach, Cranitch): AA’B (Taylor): AABB (Mulvihill): AA’BB’ (Harker/Rafferty)1. Brendan Breathnach notes that he found an untitled version in P. W. Joyce's Ancient Irish Music (Dublin, 1912 {reprint}, 51). The variant in O’Neill, “Sweet Biddy of Ballyvourney,” has a different second part, which Breathnach says does not go with the tune. The song "Peigín Leitir Mór" is sung to this air in Conamara, as is the song “Goodbye Mursheen Durkin.” The reel was first recorded by flute player Tom Morrison in 1925 under the title "Limerick Lasses (3)," followed by uilleann piper Edward Mullaney with fiddler Patrick Stack in 1926 (Victor 79012) as "Mullaney's Fancy", and eight years later by south County Sligo fiddler Paddy Killoran (1904–1965) in New York in 1934 (as "Pretty Girls of Mayo").