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MO MHÀIRI MHIN MHEALL SHUILEACH. AKA - "My Sweet Mary with Beguiling Eyes," "My Gentle Winning Eyed Mary." Scottish, Canadian; Slow Strathspey. Canada, Cape Breton. A Minor/Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Very old," notes James Stewart-Robertson in his Athole Collection (1884).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 58.

Recorded sources: Dougie MacDonald - "A Miner." Howie MacDonald - "The Dance Last Night." CP-2003-1, Brenda Stubbert - "Music All Around."

See also listing at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [1]
See notation for Dougie MacDonald's version at Cranford Publications [2]




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