Annotation:Silvermines (3)
X:1 T:Silver Mines [3] M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig B:Bartlett Cooke - Cooke's Selection of the Present B:Favorite Country Dances for the Year 1796 (No. 8) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:D A>BA A>GF|A>BA A>GF|G2E E>FE|G2E E>FE| A>BA AGF|A>BA BAG|F2D DED|F2D DED:| |:def efg|fed cBA|G2E E>FE|G2E E>FE| def efg|fed BAG|F2D DED|F2D DED:|]
SILVER MINES [3], THE. Irish, Jig (6/8 time). D Major (Cooke, O'Farrell): F Major (Hughes). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Cooke, Hughes): AABBCCDDEE (O'Farrell). An early version of the tune can be found in Dublin musician, music seller, and instrument maker Bartholomew 'Bartlett' Cooke's 1796 collection of country dances. "O'Farrell's setting was entered into the mid-19th century music manuscript copybook of County Cork uilleann piper and Church of Ireland cleric James Goodman [1].