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PRETTY GIRL COMBING HER LOCKS. Irish, Slow Air (3/4 time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fddle). AB.

Source for notated version: "Copied...from a MS. book lent me by Surgeon-Major-General King of Dublin (about 1885), who copied them 40 years previously from an old MS. book in Cork" (Joyce).

Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 365, pp. 167-168.

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