Annotation:Take your Choice
X:1 T:Take your Choice M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:O'Neill's Music of Ireland. 1850 Melodies, 1903, p. 224, no. 1187 Z:François-Emmanuel de Wasseige K:G ge|:dG (3GGG (dG)Bd|efga bage|dG (3GGG (dG)Bd|egdB (TBA)A2| dG (3GGG (dG)Bd|efga bage|dGFG BABd|efga (bg)g2:| g2(ba) gddg|egdg egdg|a2(ba) geef|gedB (TBA)A2| bagb agfa|egdg egdg|bgaf gfed|efga (bg)g2|]
TAKE YOUR CHOICE (Tog do roga). AKA and see “Dan Backus' Favorite,” "Going to the Fair," “Jim Coleman's (1),” “Liverpool Jack's,” “Miss McGuiness (3),” “Terence's Ramble.” Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (O'Neill/1850 & 1001): AA'BB' (O'Neill/Krassen). William Bradbury Ryan printed several close versions of the tune under the titles "Dan Backus' Favorite," "Terence's Ramble" and "Liverpool Jack's" in his Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883). O'Neill printed a version of the tune as "Going to the Fair" as well as "Take your Choice." "Miss McGuiness (3)" is a quite distanced member of this tune family.
