The earliest known printed appearance of this melody is as a march titled “Nancy Wants Her Own Share” in Arthur Darley and Francis McCall’s Feis Ceoil Collection of Irish Airs (1914). A polka setting turned up later in O’Brien’s Accordion Instructor (1949), which gained widespread popularity in the mid-1950s through banjo player Margaret Barry and fiddler Michael Gorman, and again in the 1970s through The Chieftains. However, the earliest recording of the tune under the name “Maggie in the Woods” was made by flute player Tom Morrison in 1925 (featured as the second tune in his “Maggie in the Woods” medley). Morrison went on to re-record the set for Columbia Records a few years later, in 1928.