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Thread #114320   Message #2445656
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
20-Sep-08 - 12:15 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Maid of Listowel
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Maid of Listowel
My original link led to all three prints, incidentally; but not everyone seems to have looked. Never mind.

Here is the tune.

X:1
T:The Maid of Listowel
S:John Murphy (67) in Marylebone Workhouse, 17 October 1908.
Z:Cecil J Sharp
B:Journal of the Folk-Song Society, V (18) 1914, 45-7.
N:Originally noted in one flat with all Bs marked as naturals.
L:1/8
Q:1/4=120
M:3/4
K:DDorian
A2 | D2 A2 A2 | A2 G2 F2 | E2 D2 E2 | G2 E2 F2 |
w:One morn in Oc-to-ber for sweet re-cre-a-tion I
F2 G2 A2 | A2 B2 c2 | A2 G2 E2 | D4 E2 | F2 G2 A2 |
w:met a fair maid and she bleach-ing her clothes. I stood in a-
A2 G2 E2 | E2 D2 E2 | G2 E2 F2 | F2 G2 A2 | A2 B2 c2 |
w:maze-ment to gaze on this fair one. I asked if she pleased, would she
A2 G2 E2 | D4 G2 | A2 B2 c2 | d2 c2 d2 | e2 c2 B2 |
w:come to Lis-towel? She smi-ling-ly said with the mild-est be-
c2 A2 G2 | A2 B2 c2 | d2 e2 f2 | e2 c2 B2 |
w:ha-viour, De-sist and don't tease me but leave me a-
c4 G2 | A2 B2 c2 | d2 c2 d2 | e2 d2 B2 |
w:lone. My par-ents might blame me and you might de-
c2 A2 G G | A2 A2 B2 | c2 B2 c2 | A2 G2 E2 | D4 |]
w:ceive me For you seem as a schem-er that's straight from Lis-towel.