Annotation:I'll Be a Good Boy

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 I'LL BE A GOOD BOY {AND DO SO NO MORE} (Beid Me Buacaill Macanta). Irish, Air (3/4 time). Ireland, County Cavan. D Major (O'Neill): B Flat Major (Stanford/Petrie). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB.  Source for notated version: "From the county of Cavan" (Stanford/Petrie); Chicago Police Sergeant James O'Neill, a fiddler originally from County Down and Francis O'Neill's collaborator [O'Neill].  Printed sources: O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 245, p. 42. Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 536, p. 135.  Recorded sources:

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