Annotation:My Fair-haired Darling (1)
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MY FAIR-HAIRED DARLING [1] (Mavourneen na Gruaige Baine). AKA and see "Charmer With the Fair Locks," "Dobbin's Flowery Vale [1]," "Maid of Templenoe," "One Evening in June," "Youth and Bloom." Irish, Air (3/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB.
Source for notated version: Learned by Francis O'Neill as a boy from the singing of his father in Bantry, West County Cork, "after the daily routine of the farm work was over" [O'Neill].
Printed sources: O'Neill (O'Neill's Irish Music), 1915; No. 37, p. 26.
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