Annotation:Dear Mother He Is Going

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 DEAR MOTHER HE IS GOING, AND I KNOW NOT HOW TO BID HIM STAY. Irish, Air (3/4 time). E Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Petrie collected two versions.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; Nos. 759 & 760, p. 190.  Recorded sources:

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