Annotation:Fairhaired Boy (1) (The)

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 FAIRHAIRED BOY [1], THE ("Bouchaleen Bawn" or "An Buac{h}aillín Bán"). AKA and see "Boys from Carrickroe (The)," "Buachaillin Ban (1)," "Fair Headed Lad (The)," "Fraher's Jig," "Freheen Jig (The)," "Giolla na Gruaige Baine," "Last of the Lot (The)," "Miss Casey (1)." Irish, Double Jig. A Mixolydian (O'Neill/Krassen): A Dorian (Breathnach, Roche, Taylor): A Major (O'Neill/1850): A Minor (Connolly & Martin, O'Neill/1915, Roche/vol.1). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Breathnach): AABB (Harker/Rafferty, Roche/vol.1): AABB' (O'Neill, Taylor): AA'BB' (Connolly & Martin). "An Buachall Bán" (The Fair Lad) is an allegorical name for the Young Pretender, Bonnie Prince Charlie Stuart. The tune appears in the O'Rourke manuscripts as "The Kerryman's Rambles" and as an untitled jig in A major in Kerr's Merry Melodies (c. 1886), Book 4, p. 25.  Source for notated version: piper Pat Broohy/Padhraic Ó Broithe (Ireland) [Breathnach]; Sources for notated versions: Abram Sweetman Beamish, a native of the adjoining parish to that of Caheragh, County Cork, where Francis O'Neill was born-although O'Neill got seven tunes from Beamish, only the "Fairhaired Boy" and "Tie the Bonnet" were previously known to him despite their common place of origin [O'Neill]; New Jersey flute player Mike Rafferty, born in Ballinakill, Co. Galway, in 1926 [Harker].  Printed sources: Breathnach (CRÉ I), 1963; No. 20, p. 9. Connolly & Martin (Forget Me Not), 2002; pp. 28-29. Harker (300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty), 2005; No. 237, p. 73. O'Neill (O'Neill's Irish Music), 1915; No. 140, p. 81. O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 42. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 158, p. 41. Roche Collection, vol. 1, 1913, No. 120, p. 50. Roche Collection, 1927, vol. 3; No. 110, p. 34 (appears as "Giolla na Gruaige Baine"). Taylor (Where's the Crack?), 1989; p. 21.  Recorded sources: Gael-Linn CEF 176, Jackie Daly - "Many's a Wild Night" (learned from the playing of Kiskeam fiddle player Maurice O'Keeffe).  See also listings at: Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources Alan Ng's Irishtune.info

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