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T:Archy Boylan
M:2/4
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S:Stanford/Petrie (1905), No. 744
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:Eb
G/A/ | BB BA/B/ | c>B AF | AF EE | E3 || G/A/ | BB Bc/d/ |
ee ed/e/ | f>e _dc/B/ | c3 c/B/ | BB Bc/d/ | ee ed/e/ | f>e _dc/B/ |
c3 d/c/ | BB BA/B/ | c>B AF | AF EE | E3 ||
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Collector George Petrie, in his Petrie Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland, said he had the tune from a “near connection: of his, who had learned it when she was young from an elderly lady by the name of Betty Skillin. Petrie thought the air a “common Anglo-Irish street ballad” and preserved only the title, and noted that the melody had a common ballad phrase construction: ABB’A’.
