Annotation:May Morning
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MAY MORNING. Irish, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The melody also appears in Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1981) as "Old Cotillion" (No. 592, p. 521). Bayard was of the opinion had "the distinct ring of an English country dance," but was unable to trace it.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources:
Harding (Harding Collection), 1915.
Harding (Harding's Original Collection), 1928; No. 63.
O'Malley & Atwood (Seventy Good Old Dances), 1919; p. 4.
Recorded sources: