Annotation:Jim Moore's Fancy

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 JIM MOORE'S FANCY (Roga Seamuis Ui Morda). AKA and see "Flowers of Michigan," "Morning Cheer." Irish, Reel. A Mixolydian (O'Neill/Krassen): A Dorian (O'Neill/1001): A Major (O'Neill/1850). Standard tuning. AB. Source for notated version: Francis O'Neill learned the tune from a young Limerick man named James Moore in Chicago during the winter of 1875. Moore, a flute player without an instrument, lived in a cold boarding-house across the street from O'Neill and often availed himself of O'Neill's hospitality, ensconcing himself on a "cozy seat on the woodbox back of our kitchen stove" while borrowing O'Neill's flute to play on. Moore, complained a frustrated O'Neill, often did not remember the names of the tunes he played ("a very common failing") and was lost track of when he moved to New York in the spring [O'Neill, Irish Folk Music]. Edward Cronin, a Tipperary fiddler, was the only other man O'Neill once wrote he heard playing a variant of the melody. In Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody O'Neill prints a variant called "Morning Cheer," reprinted from the Rice-Walsh manuscript from north Kerry.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 102. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 1236, p. 233. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 510, p. 96.  Recorded sources:  See also listing at: Alan Ng's Irishtune.info

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