Annotation:Do What You Please but Take Care of My Cap

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 DO WHAT YOU PLEASE BUT TAKE CARE OF MY CAP. Irish, Jig or Planxty (6/8 time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. An untitled air that collector George Petrie believed was a planxty or dance tune "apparently by Carolan." He indicated it was a variant of a tune he had collected, called "Do what you please but take care of my cap", from the sculptor Patrick MacDowell in 1859. Francis O'Neill printed the tune in his Music of Ireland (1903, No. 688) as "Planxty O'Daly," a title that Donal O'Sullivan concludes is wrong.  Source for notated version: "From Mr. MacDowell, March 1859" [Petrie]; George Petrie [O'Sullivan].  Printed sources: O'Sullivan (Carolan: The Life, Times and Music of an Irish Harper), 1958; No. 173. Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 872, p. 218.  Recorded sources:

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