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X:1 T:Kitty Mooney M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig/Air S:John Rook music manuscript collection (Waverton, Cumbria, 1840, p. 223) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G f|g2G G2G|G2G G2A|B2A B2d|e3 def| g2G G2G|G2G G2A|B2A G2 F|(E3E2):| d|e2d e2f|g2a g2f|e2d e2f|g3 g2a| bag agf|gfe def|gfe d2 B|G3 G2:|]



KITTY MOONEY. Irish, Jig or Air (6/8 time). F Major (Kerr): G Major (Rook). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The melody was entered into the 1840 music manuscript collection of multi-instrumentalist John Rook of Waverton, near Wigton, Cumbria, and, as an untitled jig, in Book 3 of the large c. 1883 music manuscript collection of County Leitrim fiddler and piper biography:Stephen Grier (c. 1824-1894).


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Printed sources : - Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 2), c. 1880's; No. 273, p. 30.






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