Annotation:Absent Minded Man (The)

Old Scottish variants can be found in the Trotter Manuscript of 1780 and the Skene Manuscript of c. 1630-1640 under the "Hare in the Corn" title. The melody (under "The Absent Old Man" title) can also be found in Miles Krassen's O'Neill edition (1976, p. 21) and O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907, No. 254, p. 56).