Annotation:My name it is Munhall

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X:1 T:My name it is Munhall M:C L:1/8 R:Air B:Joyce - Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (1909, No. 666) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:Ador d2|c>ABG E2 DE|A2 AB c2d2|cABG E2 DE|G2G2G3|| B2|cBcd e2 ge|dBGB !fermata!d2 ed|cABG E2 DE| A2 AB c2d2|cABG E2 DE|G2G2G2||

MY NAME IT IS MUNHALL. Irish, Air (4/4 time). A Dorian/G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Sergeant Munhall commanded some troops who mutinied in Cork about 1800" (Joyce). Frank Kidson writes that the air "is most surely a parody of [the English song] "My Name it is Jack Hall."

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - Mr. J. Snowe, Cork, via Forde [Joyce].

Printed sources : - Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 666, pp. 333-334.

Recorded sources: -

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