Annotation:Let Us be Merry in Our Old Clothes

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X:1 T:Let Us be Merry in Our Old Clothes M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:Rev. Luke Donnellan music manuscript collection (c. 1909, Oriel region, B:south Ulster) K:Bb B2 bg fdcB|AFcF dFcF|B2 bg...

LET US BE MERRY IN OUR OLD CLOTHES. AKA and see "Bright May Morning (A)," "Charleville Lasses (The)," "Cumberland (The)," "Little Duke's," "Miss Edmonston's Reel," "Miss Gibson (2)," "Miss Nancy Gibson," "Mr. Robertson's Reel," "Reel (76)," "Una's Lock (1)," "Wayside Wagon (The)." Irish, Reel (cut time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Let Us be Merry in Our Old Clothes" is contained in the music manuscript collection of curate and fiddler biography:Rev. Luke Donnellan (1878-1952), Oriel region, south Ulster^[1]. The tune is widespread and has Scottish origins and variety of titles. Frank Roche's "Wayside Wagon (The)" is nearly identical to Donnellan's reel.

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Rev. Luke Donnellan music manuscript collection [O'Connor].

Printed sources : - O'Connor (The Rose in the Gap), 2018; No. 160, p. 87.

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↑ Donnellan researcher Gerry O'Connor came to believe the ms. is not the work of the curate but rather was originally compiled by an unknown but able fiddler over the course of a playing lifetime, probably in the late 19th century. The ms. later came into the possession of Donnellan, who was also a fiddler.

[1] Donnellan researcher Gerry O'Connor came to believe the ms. is not the work of the curate but rather was originally compiled by an unknown but able fiddler over the course of a playing lifetime, probably in the late 19th century. The ms. later came into the possession of Donnellan, who was also a fiddler.

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