Betty O'Brien

X:1 T:Betty O'Brien M:C| L:1/8 C:Turlough O'Carolan K:D F2A2A2d2|BA G2F2E2|D2D2E2D2|B,4 A,4|FF A2A2d2|BABd e2d2| BAGF GFED|D4D4|A,A,A,2A,2 DD|B,B, B,2B,2D2|EFED EDEF|A4A4| BcBA F2A2|BcBA GFED|D2D2 DEFD|E4 E4|F2A2A2Bc|d4d4|BcBA F2A2| B3c d2FG|A2 FE D2F2|D2 EF A2A,2|B,2D2 EFED|D4 D4||

 BETTY O'BRIEN. Irish, Planxty. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Composed by blind Irish Harper Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738). Donal O'Sullivan (1958) could find no information regarding Betty O'Brien (whose name was Betty, not Kitty, according to the words set to the tune). Collector Edward Bunting noted a version of the tune from the playing of harper Charles Fanning and printed it in his General Collection of the Ancient Irish Music (London, 1796). Printed sources: Complete Collection of Carolan's Irish Tunes, 1984; No. 111, p. 82. O'Sullivan (O'Carolan: The Life Times and Music of an Irish Harper), 1958; No. 111, p. 160. __NORICHEDITOR__