Bruce, Jeri and Snuffy,

Mick and I are researching "St. Patrick's Day" (tune used for Moore's "Prince's Day" more commonly known as "Tho' Dark Are Our Sorrows"... George Petrie (as Mick mentioned above) stated in the introduction to his Collection of Ancient Music of Ireland, that "Patrick's Day" although collected by Edward Bunting in his own collection, was more accurately contained in Playford's "Dancing Master", but didn't give an original title nor edition--hence our search.

Mick has been going through the information from your site, Bruce (he seems to find more than I do LOL) as part of the research. Thanks for the summary of info! It will help sort out what we are looking for.

Thanks Jeri and Snuffy for your input.

The ABC I posted is the abc of the Playford tune...and thus would sound different, but seems to be the origin of the "modern" tune "Patrick's Day" that Petrie was referring to without giving the answer away. LOL

Now, let's see what Mick's feedback is to all this.

Cheers and Thanks everyone!

Mary