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FAIR GIRL MAKING HAY, THE. Irish, Song tune and Single Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part.

Source for notated version: learned by Joyce from the singing of his aunt, Mrs. Mary MacSweeny of Cork, and of Glenosheen, Co. Limerick, 1844-1855 [Joyce].

Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 171, p. 86.

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