X: 186
T: the Hare in the Corn
N: Variant of tune 766 in MoI (1850), labelled "No.1", not the same tune as 767 "No.2".
O: Aird's Selections 1782-97
R: double jig
%S: s:4 b:16(8+8)x2
B: Francis O'Neill: "Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody" ed.2 1922 p.103 #111
S: hathitrust.org
F: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044040672529 (ed.2 1922) [2022-08-28]
S: Aird's Selections 1782-97
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: G
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V: 1 staves=2
"^A"[|] c |\
BGB def | gdc B2G | cec BdB | cAA A2c ||\
BGB def | gdc B2G | Aag fef | gGG G2 :|
"^B"|: c |\
dBB GBB | dBB GBB | cAA FAA | cAA GBc ||\
dBB ecc | fdd gee | dBB cAf | gGG G2 :|
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V: 2 clef=bass middle=d
z |\
[G3g3] [g3b3d'3] | G3 [g2b2d'2]z | c3 [g3b3] | [D3d3] [d2f2a2]z ||\
[G3g3] [g3b3d'3] | G3 [g2b2d'2]z | [D3d3] [d3a3c'3] | [G3g3] [g2b2d'2] :|
|: z |\
[G3g3] [g3b3d'3] | B3 [g3b3d'3] | [D3d3] [d3f3a3] | [D3d3] [d3b3] ||\
[G3g3] [e3g3c'3] | [D3d3] [e3g3b3] | [D3d3] [d3f3a3] | [G3g3] [g2b2d'2] :|
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%%begintext align
%% A rather florid setting of "The Hare in the Corn", procured "from a
%% piper in 1800" is printed in Bunting's Ancient Music of Ireland,
%% published in 1840, with notation "Author and date unknown".
%% The name is not indexed in any of the Petrie or Joyce Collections.
%% The setting herewith presented was taken from Aird's Selections
%% of Scotch, English, Irish, and Foreign Airs, 1782-97. It is also known
%% as "The Hare in the Corner".
%%endtext

% The following text belongs with the next tune, but is in the same paragraph as the above.
% This is probably just due to laziness on the typesetter's part.
% %begintext align 
% % It may be permissible to abbreviate such an involved title as 
% % "Sae braley as I was kiss'd yestreen" into "Yesterdays' Kisses" both
% % for convenience and euphony, especially as the sentiment has not been
% % clouded by the change. This jig preserved also in Aird's Selections,
% % has been given circulation recently on the player pianos.
% %endtext
% %endtext