Nellie, Your Favor I'm Afraid I'll Not Gain

Basic musical information on this tune.
Rhythm ?	Bars	8-bar phrase structure	Mode ?
Hornpipe	32	AABB	E Dorian

Discography

Here are all recordings of this tune considering only the indexed recordings. I have discovered by careful listening that these sources are in fact musically the same tune, regardless of the tune titles they use, key changes, retuning, etc.

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Year Recorded	Track #Tune?	[Album code] Artist. Title (Link to Album Info page). Performers (instruments).
~2001	7#2	[PACarb] Peter Carberry, Angelina Carberry, John Blake. Memories from the Holla. Peter Carberry (accordion), Angelina Carberry (banjo), John Blake (guitar). For this tune: with Laoise Kelly (harp).
2012	7#1	[THny 2] Therese Honey. Summer's End. Therese Honey (harp).

Goes Well with . . .

In the above Discography, this tune is:

Played after	On Albums
Paddy Connelly's Stack of Barley	PACarb

Played before	On Albums
Boys of Ballycastle	THny 2

Bibliography

According to my research, there are zero transcriptions that are musically very similar to this tune anywhere in the indexed books, regardless of tune title. Try my recommended links to other indexes if you need a transcription. To learn to play this tune, simply learn it from another musician or study the recording(s) listed above. See also: Tips for Learning Irish Traditional Music.

Year of the oldest source for this tune, considering only the recordings and transcriptions listed above (note that I concentrate on sources after 1900): 2001

Tune ID#6066 (Nellie, Your Favor I'm Afraid I'll Not Gain)

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Discography

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Bibliography