Annotation:Young Jenny the Pride of Our Town
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YOUNG JENNY THE PRIDE OF OUR TOWN. Irish, Jig and Air (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB.
Source for notated version: "From Davy Cleary, piper and dancing master: Kilfinane: 1844" [Joyce]. Kilfinane was near the boyhood home of collector P.W. Joyce [1] (1827-1914) in Glenosheen.
Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 56, p. 30.
Recorded sources:
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Hear/see the tune played by fiddler Máire O'Keeffe on youtube.com [2]