Old Mother Goose
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Old Mother Goose", also known as "Lep Up" or "Don't Leave Me Alone" is an Irish slip jig in<br> G Major and 9/8 time. The parts are played AB.<br> The melody appears as an untitled jig in the mid-19th century collections of John Clinton,<br> P.M. Haverty, and R.M. Levey. Researcher Conor Ward found a version of the melody in<br> Fleischmann's Sources of Irish Traditional Music, c. 1600-1855 , vol. 2 (1998),<br> sourced to T.S. Cooke's (1782-1848) opera Mother Goose (c. 1810), which explains the title in<br> Ryan's Mammoth Collection. The melody was used in the opera's Overture. Ward also finds the<br> tune in the c. 1900 music manuscript collection of Larry Smyth, a fiddler from Abbeylara,<br> County Longford, under the title "The Spree".<br> It was printed in Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940),<br> Kennedy's Fiddler's Tune-Book: Slip Jigs and Waltzes (1999),<br> Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883) and<br> White's Unique Collection (1896).<br>
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