Annotation:Lads of the Town (The)
X:1 T:Lads of the Town, The N:A version of "Connaughtman's Rambles (1) (The)" M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig S:The mid-19th cent. music manuscript collection of James Goodman (County Cork, p. 102) F:http://goodman.itma.ie/volume-one#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=105&z=2061.5521%2C2886.4177%2C3687.1437%2C2233.3334 Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:C A|GEE cEE|GEG G2A|GEE cBc|Add dcA| GEE cEE|GEG cde|fef ded|cAA A2:| |:d|eaa egg|ede cde|eaa egg|edc d2z| eaa egg|ede cde|fef ded|1 cAA A2:|2 cAA dcA||
LADS OF THE TOWN, THE. AKA and see "Connaughtman's Rambles (1) (The)." Irish, Jig (6/8 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was entered at least twice in the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork Church of Ireland cleric and uilleann piper James Goodman (1828-1896). A fragment of the jig (as "Lads of the Town") consisting of four measures was entered into music manuscript volume 5, with the note: "I copied this from a little book published by an anonymous author, in 1825"[1].
