The Morning Dew

The title is fairly recent. James Kerr printed the reel in Scotland in the 1880s as "The Hare Among the Heather," and singer Margaret Barry and Sligo fiddler Michael Gorman recorded it under that name in 1956. It may grow out of the Scottish "Flora McDonald's Reel."

Clare fiddlers Paddy Canny and P. J. Hayes put a different part first on their 1959 recording, and players still disagree about which part opens the tune. Chieftains piper Paddy Moloney used part of it in his first film score, Ireland Moving.