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Thread #56279   Message #878853
Posted By: Leslie Butler (inactive)
31-Jan-03 - 12:11 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: unidentified Irish tune (provided)
Subject: Words wanted for Irish melody (provided)
There's an Irish-sounding song running through my head for which I can't remember or find the words. All I recall is that the last verse went something like: And I wish the Queen would call back her armies/ From (various European countries ending with Spain)/ (something about couples being restored)/ da dum da da dum da da dum da da dum da dum again.

It was a slow song (I heard it in pub sessions) in 4 beat time and with a lovely Dorian modal tune: The easiest way to represent the tune is to take the white notes of the keyboard and let D = 1 (tonic) E=2 etc. Notes below 'home' D, I'll label A C etc. Treating all beats are even, it's. . .
--AC/
1112/1CAB/CCC1/2221/CCCC/CC44/
7776/5556/542C/1124/4444/4424/
5556/542C/1112/111C/AAAA/AA44/
5556/5556/542C/111C/1111/11--.

Anyway, anybody with the patience to decipher that will have learned a really nice melody or else recognised the song in which case maybe you could point me towards the words.
Ta in advance.
Leslie Butler