Annotation:Maid in the Cherry Tree (3) (The)
X: 1 T: Maid in the Cherry Tree [3] (Curragh Races) (reel) % cre1<bb B: CRE1.103 (Gearrchaile sa gCrann Silini) S: John Potts M: C L: 1/8 Q: 360 R: reel F:http://www.capeirish.com/webabc/collections/cre/v1/cre1-tunes.txt K: Am eAcA eAcA|G2BG dGBG|eAcA eAcA|dBGB cAA2| eAcA eAcA|G2BG dGBG|cBcA BABG|dBGB cAA> || B/| c2eA gAeA|c2eg dBGB|c2eA gAeA|dBGB cAAB| c2eA gAeA|c2eg dBGB|c2cA BABG|dBGB cAA2 ||
MAID IN THE CHERRY TREE [3], THE. AKA and see "Curragh Races (1)," "Humors of Old Knockaney (The)," "Coleman's Fancy," "London Lasses (2)," "Mick Flaherty's." Irish, Reel. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A distanced dorian-mode setting of "Maid in the Cherry Tree (1) (The)." The reel was popularized through the playing of the Castle Céilí Band. Fr. John Quinn and Conor Ward find a version of the tune in Book 2 (No. 277) of the large c. 1883 music manuscript collection of County Leitrim fiddler and piper biography:Stephen Grier (c. 1824-1894).
