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HOW PADDY WAS FOOLED (An Nos Do Bi Paidih Meallta). AKA and see "Cader Idris," "Jenny Jones," "Sweet Jenny Jones," "Widow on the Train." Irish, Air (3/4 time, "playfully"). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The melody was composed as "Cader Idris" by the early 19th century harper John Parry, known as‘Bardd Alaw’.Paul de Grae points out the tune is a 3/4 time variant of "Top of Cork Road (The)" AKA "Father O'Flynn[1]
Additional notes
Printed sources : - O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 160, p. 28.
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