Annotation:Stolen Purse (2) (The)
STOLEN PURSE [2], THE (An sparán goidte). AKA and see "Lame Crowley." Irish, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. O’Neill (1922), remarks: “This rare jig tune which has haunted my memory for years was evidently derived from ‘Old Woman Lamenting Her Purse (The)’, No. 560, O'Neill's Music of Ireland 1903. The air does not appear in the Bunting Collections. A setting in which the first part is repeated after the second part is printed without note or comment in Petrie's Complete Collection of Irish Music.” The melody is similar to “Lark on the Strand (1)."
