Annotation:Gramachree Molly

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 GRAMACHREE MOLLY (Grad Mo Croide a Maire). AKA and see "Harp That Once Through Tara's Hall (The)," "Molly Asthore," "Will you go to Flanders," "Little Molly O!," "Gramachree," "Gradh mo chroidhe." Irish, Slow Air (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. 'Gramachree' is an Englished version of the Irish "Gra Mo Croi" (Graidh mo chroidhe), or 'love of my heart.' The song "Gramachree Molly" was originally composed by a young Irishman, George Ogle, when he was in his early 20's (it was the second song written to the tune). Bruce Olson finds that it first appears with the tune in The London Magazine, of Sept. 1774, proved popular, and soon thereafter appears in many songbooks, printed with and without the tune. Dan Mozell found a fife setting of the tune in the John Greenwood Manuscript from the post-Revolutionary period, now kept at the New York Historical Society. Greenwood had been a fifer in the Revolution and later became dentist to George Washington.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Johnson (Scots Musical Museum), vol. 1, 1787; No. 46. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 524, p. 91.  Recorded sources:

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