tune page




      help

My Love is Fair and Handsome

Found in My_Love_Is_Fair_and_Handsome.abc from the John Chambers abc collection
 browse similar search file search collection

 download: abc | midi | png | musicxml
My Love is Fair and Handsome - staff notation
X:1
T:My Love is Fair and Handsome
T:Magic Slipper, The [1]
S:irtrad-l 2001-4-24
N: MY LOVE IS FAIR AND HANDSOME (Ta Mo Grad Go Alain's Go Boideac).  AKA
N: and  see  "Coming Home from the Bog," "Donegal Boys," "The Gardener's
N: Daughter," "The Groves of Mt. Talbot," "I Wish I Had Never Seen You,"
N: "Magic  Slipper,"  "Maud Millar" [2], "McFadden's Handsome Daughter,"
N: "The Montua,"  "Morrison's,"  "Mrs.   Smullen's,"  "Paddy  McFadden."
N: Irish, Reel. Ireland, County Sligo. G Major. Standard. AB (Flaherty):
N: AA'B (O'Neill).  A two-part version of the reel often  known  by  the
N: title  "McFadden's Handsome Daughter." "My Love is Fair and Handsome"
N: was the favorite reel of a Mr.  Broderick, the school  director  with
N: whom the future collector Francis O'Neill boarded at Edina, Missouri,
N: in the 1870's.  Broderick was a native of Galway and, like O'Neill, a
N: fine  performer  on  the  flute  (O'Neill,  Irish Folk Music).  Paddy
N: Killoran recorded the tune on a c.  1950's 78 RPM record  under  this
N: title.   Source  for  notated  version:  conical ("Clarke's") whistle
N: player Jim Donoghue, 1910-1990 (Drimacoo, Monasteraden, County Sligo)
N: [Flaherty].   Flaherty  (Trip  to  Sligo),  1990;  pg.  179.  O'Neill
N: (Krassen), 1976; pg.  99.  O'Neill (1850), 1903/1979; No.  1220,  pg.
N: 230.  O'Neill (1001 Gems), 1907/1986; No.  497, pg.  94.
L:1/8
M:2/4
K:G
g/e/|d/B/A/B/ G/F/E/F/|GB/G/ d/G/B/e/|d/B/A/B/ G/F/E/D/|B/e/e/^d/ e/f/g/e/|
d/B/A/B/ G/F/E/F/|GB/G/ d/G/B/e/|d/B/A/B/ G/F/E/D/|E/G/F/A/ Gz:|
|:d/e/g/a/ b/g/a/b/|g/f/g/a/ g/d/B/g/|d/e/g/a/ b/g/a/b/|g/a/f/g/
e/f/g/e/|d/e/g/a/ b/a/g/f/|
g/f/e/f/ g>a|b/a/g/f/ g/f/e/d/|(3e/f/g/ d/g/ e/f/g/e/:|

Alternative sources for this tune:


TuneGraph - similar tunes (what's this?)