X:66
T:Dalkeith Maiden
M:4/4
L:1/8
S:Aird's Selections 1782-97
K:G
DE|G>FGA B2 AG|A>GAB d3 e|d>BA>G A>cBA|{A}G2 E2 E2:||
ef|gfga "tr"g2 eg|agab a2 ge|g3 a bage|g2 d2 d2 ge|
d>BA>G A2 g>e|db c/2B/2A/2G/2 E2 g>e|
d<BA>G A>cBA|{A}G2 E2 E2||
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% There is enough resemblance between the above melody and that
% which follows to suggest a common origin. The "Dalkeith Maiden"
% was taken from Aird's  Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and
% Foreign Airs, Vol.III, published in  Glasgow, 1786. The earliest
%setting of "Biddy I'm Not Jesting" available is that obtained by
% Petrie in 1829  from Paddy Coneely, the famousGalway piper,
%and which appears in  the key of A Flat in the Stanford Petrie
% Collection of Irish Music. The source of this memorized version
%of earlier years cannot now be recalled by the writer.