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OH GIRL OF THE GOLDEN TRESSES. AKA - "Girl of the Golden Tresses." AKA and see "Madam If You Please," "Rambles of Joe Burke, The." Irish, Air (4/4 time). G Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A hornpipe version of the melody appears in O'Neill's Music of Ireland (1903) as "Madam If You Please."

Source for notated version: "Set from P. Mullin, Arran-More, 10th Sept., 1857" [Stanford/Petrie].

Printed sources: Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 371, p. 94.

Recorded sources: Charlie Piggott, Miriam Collins and Joe Corcoran - "The Lonely Stranded Band" (1996).

See also listing at:
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]




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