Annotation:Bold Soger Boy

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BOLD SOGER BOY. Irish, Air (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The first strain is shared with O'Neill's "Bold Soldier Boy (The)" although the second parts differ. The tune was entered into the mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork uilleann piper and Church of Ireland cleric James Goodman.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Howe (1000 Jigs and Reels), c. 1867; p. 101. O'Flannagan (The Hibernia Collection), Boston, 1860; p. 30.

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