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Thread #52843   Message #815107
Posted By: masato sakurai
31-Oct-02 - 08:45 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: The Buck's Elegy (corrupt text?)
Subject: RE: BUCK'S ELEGY -- A corrupt text?
The tune titled "The Unfortunate Rake" in Holden (c. 1805) [#4584 in Sources of Irish Traditional Music] is a "double jig", but the same tune in Holden's Collection of the Most Esteem'd Old Irish Melodies (c. 1807) [#4695] seems to be a song; only one line is given in SITM: "Oh! many a Mountain I wearily measure." "The Wandering Harper" in Crosby's The Irish Musical Repository (1808) is given this tune ("Air--The unfortunate rake") [#4806].

~Masato