The Limerick Lasses
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Limerick Lasses" (in Gaelic {Na} Og-Mna {Ua} Luimnaig) also known<br> "Coppers and Brass/Coppers of Brass", "Crossing the Field", "Dublin Lasses",<br> "Green Fields of Erin", "Heather Breeze", "The Heather Bloom", "The Heathery Braes",<br> "The Heathery Braes of Ballyhealy", "The Humors of Appletown", "Ladies' Pantaloons/Lady's<br> Pantaloons", "Limerick Lads", "McNamara's Reel", "The Pretty Little Boy" and<br> "Who Made Your Britches?" is an Irish and Scottish reel or long dance in D Major.<br> The parts are played ABC, AA'BC, AABBC or AABBCC.<br> The tune is printed at least twice in Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883), as "Limerick Lasses",<br> and as a two-part version called "Who Made Your Britches?". "Limerick Lasses" was earlier<br> printed in Irish violinist R.M. Levey's Dance Music of Ireland, vol. 1 (1858), where it is<br> set as a polka, in 2/4 time. Researcher Conor Ward finds a version of the tune under the<br> title "The Pretty Little Boy" in the c.1883 music manuscript collection of Stephen Grier,<br> of Gortletteragh, Co. Leitrim. <br> It was printed in Alewine's Maid that Cut Off the Chicken's Lips (1987),<br> Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940), Honeyman's Strathspey, Reel and Hornpipe Tutor (1898),<br> Levey's Dance Music of Ireland, vol. 1 (1858), O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies<br> (1903), O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907), Krassen's O'Neill (1976),<br> Roche's Collection of Traditional Irish Music, vol. 2 (1912),<br> Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883) and Stewart-Robertson's The Athole Collection (1884).<br> It was recorded by John & Phil Cunningham on The Celts Rise Again (1990) and<br> Silly Wizard: Live in America (1986). <br>
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