The Dairy Maid jig

Also known as The Dairy Girl.

There are 13 recordings of this tune.

This tune has been recorded together with

The College Groves (a few times),
The Flax In Bloom (a few times) and
The Hare’s Paw (a few times).

The Dairy Maid has been added to 5 tunebooks.

One setting

X: 1
T: The Dairy Maid
R: jig

M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: Fmaj
(F/A/)|c2d c2A |GFF F2A |c2f dcA |BGG G2 (A/B/)|
c2A GFG |AGA f2e |d2c fcA |GFF F2:|
|:c |f2d dcf |c2A AGA |cfe dcf |AGF G2 (A/B/)|
c2A GFG |AGA f2e |d2c fcA |GFF F2:||

Two comments

The Dairy Maid

It seems no jig named “Dairy Maid” has ever been posted.
Here is a first one, which appears in O’Neill’s Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903), p. 207, no. 1100.

The Dairy Maid (F major)

This setting also appears – in a very similar version, also in F major – in The Petrie Collection of Irish Music, part II, ed. Charles Villiers Stanford (1905), p. 150, no. 596 as “The Dairy Girl”.

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