Annotation:Dark Maiden of the Valley (The)
X:1 T:Dark Maiden of the Valley, The M:3/4 L:1/8 R:Air S:O'Neill - Music of Ireland (1903), No. 368 Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion Q:"Slow" K:G (3GBd|{f}e2 de dc|B>A GE G>B|{B}A2 G2 GA|G6 {a/4B/4c/4d/4e/4f/4}| g2 gb ag|f>d BA GA|B2 d>f ec|{c}d6 {a/4B/4c/4d/4e/4f/4}|g2 gb ag|f2 dc BA| G2 GA B/d/e/f/|g4 (3bag|f2 de dc|B>A GE G>B|{B}A2 G2 GA|{F}G4||
DARK MAIDEN OF THE VALLEY, THE (An MaigDean Dub On Feorain). AKA and see "Maiden (The)," "Bean Dubh a' Ghleanna (1) (An)." Irish, Slow Air (3/4 time). E Minor/G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The air is a simpler version of "Bean Dubh a' Ghleanna (1) (An)" (The Dark Woman of the Glen), which O'Neill obtained from fiddler Daniel Sullivan of Boston, a native of Millstreet, County Cork. See also O'Daly's (Poets and Poetry of Munster, 1850) variant "Bean Dubh an Ghleanna."
