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I AM A POOR MAIDEN, MY FORTUNE PROVED BAD. Irish, Air (3/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part.

Source for notated version: “(The Irish collector) Mr. Joyce, from Peggy Cudmore” [Stanford/Petrie].

Printed sources: Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 455, p. 115.

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