Annotation:Jackson's Bottle of Claret

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 JACKSON'S BOTTLE OF CLARET. AKA and see "Jackson's Mistake." Irish, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune appears in Paul Alday's A Pocket Volume of Airs, Duets, Songs, Marches, etc. (Dublin, c. 1800-1803), reprinted by O'Neill in Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody (1922, 148). Breathnach (1996) finds it under the title The tune, under the title "Jackson's Mistake", can be found in a manuscript by Fermanagh musician Patrick Gunn. The first part of "Fat Man's Fancy (The)" in O'Neill's Music of Ireland (No. 907) is shared with "Jackson's Bottle of Claret."  Source for notated version: copied from Paul Alday's Pocket Volume (c. 1800) [O'Neill].  Printed sources: O'Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 133.  Recorded sources:

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