Annotation:Go My Own Darling Boy

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GO MY OWN DARLING BOY. Irish, Air (3/4 time). E Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The melody was copied into the 1841-42 music manuscript collection of Dublin dentist and music collector Henry Hudson (1798-1889), with the note that he had it from "Bayly's Melodies of Various Nations, 2nd vol."

Source for notated version: copied from the Hudson manuscript [O'Neill].

Printed sources: O'Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922.

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