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Annotation:Sweet Molly (1)
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SWEET MOLLY [1]. AKA and see "Hopetoun House," “Life of Man (1),” “Youngest Daughter (1) (The).” "Baintreach na Radaireacht," "Captain Murray's Reel," "Cock Your Pistol Charlie (2)," "Polly's Reel," "Sir Hector Munro's Reel" (Còrnal Eachinn Munro), "Tap Room (The)." AKA – “Sweet Mally.” Scottish, Reel. E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of "Sweet Molly" in Neil Stewart's 1761 collection (p. 11), and later published in Edinburgh by the Gows. Scottish musician and dancing master James Gillespie included it in his 1768 Duke of Perth music manuscript collection as "Sweet Mally a reel" (p. 91). "Sir Hector Munro's Reel" is the the title for the reel in Glasgow piper, pipe teacher and pipe-maker William Gunn's Caledonian Repository of Music (1848), where "Sweet Molly" is given as an alternate title. The reel appears in Northumbrian musician William Vickers’ 1770 music manuscript under the title “Life of Man (1)]," and it has many variants in Ireland as well (see note for “annotation:Youngest Daughter (1) (The)”).
