Annotation:Gipsies came to Lord M....'s Gate (The)

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 GIPSIES CAME TO LORD M____'S GATE, THE. AKA - "Gypsies Cam' to Our Lord's Yett." Irish, Air (4/4 time). G Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. "In the district around Newtownards, a version of the Scotch ballad, 'The Gypsies cam' to our lord's yett', was sung to this (Irish) air" (Joyce).  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Song), 1909; No. 334, p. 154.  Recorded sources:

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