Tie the Petticoat Tighter

X: 792
T: Tie the Petticoat Tighter
T: the Bonnie Highlander
R: jig
%S: s:3 b:20(6+6+8)
O: F.O'Neill
B: O'Neill's 1850 "Music of Ireland" #792
Z: Stephen Foy (shf@access.digex.net)
N: Shortened initial B to an 8th note, to fix the rhythms of repeats.
%abc 1.6
M: 6/8
K: Am
B \
| c2A BGE | c2A BGE | G2G G2d | G2G G2B || c2A BGE | c2A BGE |
| A2A A2e | A2A A2 :| B |: cde dcB | cBA BGE | g>ag gdB | g>ag gdB ||
[1 cde dcB | cBA BGE | aba aec | aba aec :|\
[2 cde def | edc BA^G | A2A A2e | A2A A2 |]

Alternative sources for this tune:

• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/ONeills/_1850/copies/Tie_the_Petticoat_Tighter-Am-32-3/0000
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/ONeills/jig/Tie_the_Petticoat_Tighter_792-Am-32-3/0000

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