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Annotation:Old Woman's Money (1)
X:1 % T:Old Woman's Money [1], The M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Air S:Joyce - Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (1909) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:G GGG G2B|AFD DEF|GGG G2B|A2d cAF| GGG G2B|AFD D2E|=F>GF/E/ F2G|A2d cAG:| |:cAG G2A|cAG G2A|cAG GFG|A2d cAG| cAG G2A|cAG G2A|~^F3 F2G|A2 d cAG:| |:=F>GA/c/ f3|g=fe f3|=F>GA/c/ f3|g3 g=fg| ag=f gfe|=fed d/e/fd|cAG =F2G|A2d cAG:|]
OLD WOMAN'S MONEY [1] (Airgead Caillighe). Irish, Air (6/8 time). G Major/G Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. The earliest appearance of the tune is in Church of Ireland cleric James Goodman's mid-19th century music manuscripts. Goodman (1828-1896) was an uilleann piper and an Irish speaker who collected locally in County Cork and elsewhere in Munster. He also obtained tunes from manuscripts and printed collections. The melody seems related to the large "Gold Ring (1) (The)" family of tunes. Goodman entered another version (vol. 3, p. 74) into his MS for which see "Old Woman's Money (3)."
