Annotation:Pound of Tow (The)

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POUND OF TOW, THE. Irish, Air (6/8 time). D Mixolydian/D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Tow is the fiber of flax, hemp, or jute prepared for spinning by scutching (beating).

If your wife and my wife were in a boat together,
Fifty miles from every port without an oar or rudder,
Fifty miles from every port and there to let them go,
Never to return again to spin the pound of tow. ... (Joyce)


Source for notated version: "...sent to me...during 1884 by Mr. Francis Hogan of south Lodge, Brenormore, near Carrick-on-Suir, a good musician and a great enthusiast in Irish music and songs" (Joyce).

Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 251, p. 121.

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