Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 4562 (An Cailín Deas Crúite na mBó)

Type
Song
Where do you get the tune titles?
Titles given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
An Cailín Deas Crúite na mBó / Cailín Deas Crúite na mBó / Pretty Girl Milking her Cow (also as air, included here) (compare melody with melody of Banks of Sullane #119 and of Bean an Leanna #4513)
What do the "track#tune" codes mean?

cd Discography

Here are all recordings of this song – considering only the indexed recordings.

Year
Recorded		 Track
#Tune		 [Album code] Artist. Title. Primary musicians (instruments). Album details
and contents
~191926#1[PT] Patsy Touhey. The Piping of Patsy Touhey. Patsy Touhey (pipes).View album details
~20028#1[MaRaf] Mary Rafferty. Hand-Me-Downs. Mary Rafferty (accordion, concertina, flute, whistle).View album details
20048#1[Dnu 5] Danú. When All Is Said and Done. Donal Clancy (guitar, electric bass), Donnchadh Gough (bodhrán, pipes), Tom Doorley (flute, whistle, vocals), Eamon Doorley (bouzouki, fiddle), Oisin McAuley (fiddle, vocals), Benny McCarthy (accordion), Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh (vocals, whistle, flute).View album details

Bibliography

I have found zero transcriptions of this song anywhere on the indexed books. Try my recommended links to other indexes if you need a transcription. If you want to actually learn to sing this song, simply learn it from a fellow singer or from a recording listed above. See also: Tips for Learning Irish Traditional Music.

Year of the oldest source for this tune, considering the recordings and transcriptions listed above (note that I concentrate on sources after 1900): 1919
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