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 Theme code Index    56L36L 5L236
 Also known as    
 Composer/Core Source    Biography:Bill Black
 Region    United States
 Genre/Style    Irish
 Meter/Rhythm    Jig/Quadrille
 Key/Tonic of    G
 Accidental    1 sharp
 Mode    Ionian (Major)
 Time signature    6/8
 History    
 Structure    AABB
 Editor/Compiler    Biography:Bill Black
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Music's the Very Best Thing
 Tune and/or Page number    No. 129, p. 67
 Year of publication/Date of MS    1996
 Artist    
 Title of recording    
 Record label/Catalogue nr.    
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"COUSIN" MICHAEL RAFFERTY'S. Irish, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by Falmouth, Massachusetts, musician and writer Bill Black in honor of "the other" Mike Rafferty, who remained in Ballinakill, Galway, when his namesake emigrated to America.

Printed source: Black (Music's the Very Best Thing), 1996; No. 129, p. 67.


X:1
T: "Cousin" Michael Rafferty's
C: (c) B. Black [http://www.capeirish.com/]
Q: 300
R: jig
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: G
B | dGG Ecc | BcG EDD | DEG AGA | Bdg ede |
dgd ece | BcG EDD | DEG Adc | BGF G2 :|
B | eBB gBB | b2 a gfe | dAA fAA | a2 g fed |
BGB cAc | dBd efg | DEG Adc | BGF G2 :||


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