Annotation:Blind Beggar of the Glen

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BLIND BEGGAR OF THE GLEN. Irish, Air (2/4 or 4/4 time). A Minor/E Minor? Standard tuning (fiddle). AB.

Source for notated version: "From Mr. Flattely of Mayo" [Joyce]; "Set by J.E. Peigot, Esq., from Mr. Flatley's singing" [Stanford/Petrie].

Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 490, p. 270. Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 680, p. 171.

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