Annotation:Joy Be with You

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 JOY BE WITH YOU (Lutgair Leatsa). Irish, March (6/8 time). Ireland, Connaught. C Major (Stanford/Petrie): D Major (O'Neill). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Stanford/Petrie): AABB (O'Neill). Petrie (1855) remarks this is "an ancient Connaught March for 'breaking up.'"  Source for notated version: Chicago Police Sergeant James O'Neill, a fiddler originally from County Down and Francis O'Neill's collaborator [O'Neill].  Printed sources: O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 41. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 910, p. 169. Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 995, p. 254.  Recorded sources:

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