Annotation:Just in the Height of Her Bloom

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 JUST IN THE HEIGHT OF HER BLOOM. AKA and see "Swaggering Jig (The)." Irish, Air (9/8 time). D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Joyce thought the song to be about a man who married a girl with a good education who turned out to be a very bad housekeeper, but only remembered the chorus: So beware of those boarding-school lasses, And never by beauty be led; The girl that all others surpasses Is one that can work for her bread. The tune for the song is the popular slip jig "Swaggering Jig (The)," also known by the titles "Seanduine Coileáilte (An)" (Breathnach - CRÉ II, 98), "McDonnell's Rant" (O'Farrell - NIM p 23), "Virgin Queen (The)," "Jockey Has Gotten a Wife," "Drunken Gauger (The)," "Pol Ruadh," "Táim in arrears," and "In debt in the public house."  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 122, pp. 61-62.  Recorded sources:

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