Annotation:Last Saturday night as I lay in my bed

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LAST SATURDAY NIGHT AS I LAY IN MY BED. Irish, Air (6/8 time). E Flat Major/Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. "A white-boy song" [Petrie]. The "White Boys" were an 19th century Irish political society, usually secret, and one of many polictical groups of the era whose purpose it was to conduct a clandestine campaign against English rule of the country. Other such organizations carried the names Houghers, Ribbon Boys, United Irishmen, Fenians, etc., but the White Boys were particularly strong in Tipperary.

Source for notated version: "From James O'Reilly Esq." [Stanford/Petrie].

Printed sources: Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 767, p. 192.

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