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X:1 T:Young Boy, The T:Bouchaillín fir óig, An M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Air Q:"Slow" B:Joyce - Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (1909, p. 767) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:G B/>A/|G>A Be|d2 e/d/B/A/|B2 B/A/G/F/|A>G G G/A/| BB de/f/|g>a {g}b/a/g/f/|e>f g/f/e/d/|Bd eB/d/| f/e/d/B/ de/f/|g>a b/a/g/f/|e>f g/f/e/d/|Bd eD/E/| G>A Be|de/f/ e/d/B/A/|G>A B/A/G/F/|EG G2||d



YOUNG BOY, THE (Bouchaillín fir óig, An). Irish, Slow Air (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. P.W. Joyce identifies the air as a version of Belfast collector Edward Bunting's (1773–1843) "Wheelwright (The)," collected in 1803 from one P. Lynch of Castlebar.


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Copied from a MS. collection lent to [County Cork collector] Mr. [William] Pigot by James Hardiman, the historian of Galway and editor of Hardiman's Irish Minstrelsy” [Joyce].

Printed sources : - Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 767, p. 376.






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