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IM BÓ (Milking Song). Irish, Air (6/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Darley & McCall believe there was an old Gaelic song sung to this air, whose title is literally Im= butter and bo= a cow.

Source for notated version: fiddler Brian Mac Intyre (Virginia, Co. Cavan, Ireland) [Darley & McCall].

Printed sources: Darley & McCall (Darley & McCall Collection of Irish Traditional Music), 1914; No. 19, p. 8.

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