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Translating as 'Red Top Knots,' Tappaghyn Jiargey was sung on Laa Boaldyn (1 May) to celebrate the victory of summer over winter. The second verse says that you will be the Queen of the May!
A performance of a tune from Mona Melodies (1820), the first ever publication of Manx music.
Information about the song and its traditional context is available in 'Ceremonial Folk Song, Mumming and Dance in the Isle of Man' (1928) by Mona Douglas, available in Mona Douglas' collected writings on the collection and revival of Manx folk dance and song edited by Stephen Miller: Restoring to use our almost forgotten dances' (2004).
Piano arrangement by WH Gill in Manx National Music (1898)
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