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JACKSON'S LAKE. AKA and see "Jackson's Over the Water (1)." Irish, Jig. G Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune appears in O'Farrell's Collection of National Irish Music for the Union Pipes (1804), and bears the name of the renowned 18th century gentleman piper Walker 'Piper' Jackson, of the townland of Lisdaun, parish of Ballingarry, Aughrim, County Limerick. The first strain contains nine measures.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: O'Farrell (National Irish Music for the Union Pipes), 1804; p. 35.

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