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Thread #138481   Message #3169619
Posted By: GUEST,leeneia
12-Jun-11 - 09:00 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Farewell to Ballymoney?
Subject: RE: Origins: Farewell to Ballymoney?
There's a tune called 'Farewell to Ballymoney' in O'Neill's Music of Ireland. It's in the category Songs - Airs. The index gives it another possible name, 'The Fair Irish Maid.'

The music in this book was collected in Chicago between 1890 and 1900, and the book itself was published in 1903. Of course, the tune could have been around long before it was collected.

Some hints if you want to sound it out: it's in 3/4 time, key is D, and there's a pick-up note of one beat. Let's hope Andy Irvine used the same tune.

I like to play it on my wooden flute.