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Annotation:Mary the Maid
X: 88 T: MARY THE MAID %R: jig N: aka Bun Your Eye, the Braw Young Man, There Came a Young Man B: Jean White "100 Popular Hornpipes, Reels, Jigs and Country Dances", Boston 1880 p.37 F: http://www.loc.gov/resource/sm1880.09124.0#seq-1 Z: 2014 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> M: 6/8 L: 1/8 K: Am % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - E |\ ABA c2d | edc B2A | GAG B2c | dge dcB | ABA c2d | edc Bcd | e2A AB^G | A3- A2 :| |: B |\ (c>de/f/) g2a | gec gec | G>AB/c/ d2e | dge dBG | (c>de/f/) g2a | gec de^g | a2A AB^G | A3- A2 H:| % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
MARY THE MAID. AKA and see "Bung Your Eye," "Brisk Young Lad's (The)." English, Jig (6/8 time). A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. See also versions as "Henry's Fancy Jig," "Jolly Old Man (The)" and "There cam' a young man to my daddy's door."
