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Maud Millar reel

Also known as Donegall Boys, I Wish I Never Knew You, MacLean’s Favorite, MacLean’s Favourite, Maud Millar’s, Maud Miller’s, Maud Millers, Maude Millar, Maude Miller, Mrs Smullen, Mrs. Smullen’s, My Love Is Fair And Handsome.

There are 89 recordings of this tune.

This tune has been recorded together with

Maud Millar appears in 5 other tune collections.

Maud Millar has been added to 84 tune sets.

Maud Millar has been added to 323 tunebooks.

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Six settings

1
X: 1
T: Maud Millar
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
|:gf|edBA GBDE|G2BG dGBd|eBdB A2GA|1 Beed e2:|2 Beed ~e2ge||
dega bg~g2|agef gfge|dega bg~g2|aged gage|
dega bg~g2|agef ~g3a|bgaf gfed|Beed efgf||
2
X: 2
T: Maud Millar
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
gf|edBA GEDE|G2BG dGBd|e2dB A2GA|Beed efgf|
edBA GEDE|G2BG dGBd|e2dB A2GA|Beed e2ge|
dega bgg2|agef g3e|dega bgg2|aged eage|
dega bgg2|agef g3a|bgaf gfed|Beed e2|
3
X: 3
T: Maud Millar
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
edBA GEDE|G2(3BAG DGBd|eBdB A2GA|1 Beed efgf:|2 Beed e2ge||
dega bgg2|agef gfge|dega bgg2|aged eage|
dega bgg2|agef gfga|bgaf gfed|Beed [Be][df]gf||
4
X: 4
T: Maud Millar
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
||gf|edBA GBDE|G2BG dGBd|eBdB A2GA|1 Beed efgf:|2 Beed ~e2ge||
dggf g3~b|agef g2ed|Bdeg bagb|aged eage|
d~g3 agbg|agef ~g3a|bgaf gfed|Beed efgf||
5
X: 5
T: Maud Millar
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
ge|:dBAB GFEF|G2BG dGBe|dBAB GFED|1 Bee^d efge:|2 EGFA G2z2||
dega bgab|gfga gdBd|dega bgab|gafg efge|
dega bagf|gfef g3a|bagf gfed|(3efg dg efge||
6
X: 6
T: Maud Millar
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Emin
(gf)|:edBA GABc|dGBG dGBe|edBA GABA|1 Beed efgf:|2 Beed e2e2||
defg afdf|edef edBe|defg afdf|edef d2d2|
defg afdf|edef edBf|g2ge f2fd|efed efgf||

Fourteen comments

The other Maud

I just was playing this tune & realised this setting wasn’t listed here yet. This is based on settings by Mary Bergin, Matt Molloy & Frankie Gavin. Except frankie plays it in D & tunes a half step up putting it in Eb. which brings up the old joke, "Why did they call them ‘De Dannan’, it should have been ‘Eb Dannan’ " hardy har har….

Eb

Heh, you shoulda seen me as a beginning fiddler trying to master all those tricky Eb reels….it took years for my intonation to recover, hehehe.

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Another Version

I was about to post this tune a few days ago, but it is like this:

gf|edBA GEDE|G2BG dGBd|e2dB A2GA|Beed efgf|
edBA GEDE|G2BG dGBd|e2dB A2GA|Beed e2ge|
dega bgg2|agef g3e|dega bgg2|aged eage|
dega bgg2|agef g3a|bgaf gfed|Beed e2|

I got this version from a fiddler in Kilfenora, Clare, and that’s what Michael McGoldrick plays in Eamonn Coyne’s "Through the Round Window."

Lady Ann Montgomery set

At sessions here in Chicago Maud Millar is usually played after Lady Ann and then followed by Molloys. Referred to as the "Lady Ann Montgomery" set.

Maybe you guys should call it the "Lady Maud Molloy" set.

Maud Millar - Mrs Smullen

My transcription from
Packie Duignan & Seamus Horan : "Music from County Leitrim"

edBA GEDE|G2(3BAG DGBd|eBdB A2GA|1Beed efgf:|2Beed e2ge||
dega bgg2|agef gfge|dega bgg2|aged eage|
dega bgg2|agef gfga|bgaf gfed|Beed [Be][df]gf||

Re: Maud Millar

James Morrison recorded this in the 1920s, in the key of F, after his composition The Skylark, in the key of C

Maud Millar, X:6

Here’s another setting in O’Neill’s 1001, #579, listed as "MacLean’s Favorite." Very similar to other versions except for the fourth bar of the B part.

Re: Maud Millar

Revisiting this "MacLean’s Favorite" setting (X:6), I think I was overzealous in lumping this in the Maud Millar camp…the B part differs significantly, not just in the one bar. It should probably be it’s own tune. :/