Annotation:Miss Carbery's Reel
X:1 T:Miss Carbery's Reel M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Reel S:William Litten's music manuscript collection (1800-1802) N:Litten was a ship's fiddler with the British East India Fleet K:G d|BG GA|GA GE|DE GA|B2 AG|cA AB|AB AG|EA AB|c2 Ac| BG GA|GA GE|DE GA|B2 AG|AB cd|ed eg|GA BG|A2 G:|| |:d|B>G d>G|e>G d>G|B>G d>G|ed cB|cA eA|=f>A e>A|c>A e>A|=fe dc| B>G d>G|e>G d>G|DE GA|B2 AG|AB cd|ed eg|GA BG|A2 G:|]
MISS CARBERY'S REEL. AKA and see "Lady Carbury," “Mason's Apron (The)," "Mason Laddie (The).” English, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A version of the famous “Mason's Apron (The).” P.W. Joyce, in Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (p. 164), gives the tune in a quite different setting called "Lady Carbury." Similar settings to that in the William Litten manuscript can be found in the 1840 music manuscript collection of Cumbrian multi-instrumentalist John Rook of Waverton (p. 18), and in the c. 1863-73 music copybook of County Mayo farmer and fiddler Philip Carolan (c. 1839-1910).
