Black Haired Lass (1) (The)

X:1 T:The Black Haired Girl [1] M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Air N:"Moderate" S:O'Neill - Music of Ireland (1903), No. 509 Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:G D|G2 GE|G2 AB|c2 d/c/B/A/|c/B/A/G/ E/z/ z|G2 GE|G2 AB| c2 d/c/B/A/|(B2 B):||A|G>A Bc|d>d ef|g>f a/g/f/e/|d>B e/d/c/B/| c>A d/c/B/A/|G/D/E/F/ ~GG/B/|{B}A/G/A/B/ GG|(G2 G)||

 BLACK HAIRED GIRL/LASS [1], THE (Cailín Na Grúaige Duibhe). See also "The Dark Gate Girl," "The Dark Haired Lass [2]." Irish, Air (2/4 time). G Major (O'Neill): E Flat Major (O'Sullivan/Bunting). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (O'Neill): AABB (O'Sullivan/Bunting). O'Sullivan (1983) thinks that a song goes to this tune but found no words with this title in Bunting or elsewhere. Source for notated version: according to the index of the Irish collector Edward Bunting's 1840 collection, the melody was obtained from another collector, George Petrie, in 1822. Printed sources: O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903/1979; No. 509, p. 89. O'Sullivan/Bunting, 1983; No. 31, p. 49. __NORICHEDITOR__