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SNOWY BREASTED PEARL [2]. AKA and see "Boys of Wexford (The)." New England, County Dance Tune or March (4/4 time). A Major (Laufman, Miller & Perron, Sweet). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The title is also a Christian Science hymn, "Heavenward: 'I love Thy way of freedom, Lord,'" according to Dudley Laufman (1973).

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Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - Laufman (Okay, Let's Try a Contra, Men on the Right, Ladies on the Left, Up and Down the Hall), 1973; p. 5. Miller & Perron (New England Fiddlers Repertoire), 1983; No. 64. Sweet (The Fifer’s Delight), 1965; p. 79.

Recorded sources: -Front Hall 01, Bill Spence and Fennigs All Stars - "The Hammered Dulcimer" (appears as "Boys of Wexford").


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