G'day Charley,

As I said in my last email:

It would be interesting to see if any parallel set has turned up elsewhere in the Irish Diaspora. I do see some contextual relationship to the (earlier than-?) 1828 Plains of Emu(of the Exile of Erin genre, but written by an Irish convict from the south-west, rather than one from the north-east) that I posted to Mudcat a year or two back.

I'll be contacting friends at The National Library of Australia, folklore collection, about getting a dub of Merro's field tape of Mick Brennan - sometime today. It will need a bit of research to locate it in the reel-to-reel tapes of The Meredith Collection, but I'll let you know what I find.

I'll be in Canberra, in 2 weeks or so, for the (Australian) National Folk Festival and I may be able to slip into the collections before Easter. I'll have few things on my mind, as I have other projects looming for the Bush Music Club's 50th Anniversary, late next year!

Here is the tune (~?) as noted down from Mick Brennan's singing ... in Alan Foster's MIDItxt format:

MIDI file: LANDLRDS.mid

Timebase: 240

TimeSig: 4/4 24 8

Tempo: 080 (750000 microsec/crotchet)

Start

0840 1 60 080 0096 0 60 064 0024 1 62 080 0096 0 62 064 0024 1 60 080 0096 0 60 064 0024 1 60 080 0096 0 60 064 0024 1 57 080 0096 0 57 064 0024 1 62 080 0096 0 62 064 0024 1 60 080 0192 0 60 064 0048 1 58 080 0096 0 58 064 0024 1 57 080 0096 0 57 064 0024 1 60 080 0096 0 60 064 0024 1 65 080 0096 0 65 064 0024 1 67 080 0096 0 67 064 0024 1 69 080 0288 0 69 064 0072 1 72 080 0048 0 72 064 0012 1 72 080 0048 0 72 064 0012 1 72 080 0096 0 72 064 0024 1 65 080 0096 0 65 064 0024 1 65 080 0096 0 65 064 0024 1 60 080 0096 0 60 064 0024 1 64 080 0096 0 64 064 0024 1 62 080 0192 0 62 064 0048 1 67 080 0048 0 67 064 0012 1 69 080 0048 0 69 064 0012 1 70 080 0096 0 70 064 0024 1 67 080 0096 0 67 064 0024 1 64 080 0096 0 64 064 0024 1 60 080 0096 0 60 064 0024 1 65 080 0288 0 65 064

End

This program is worth the effort of learning it.

To download the March 10 MIDItext 98 software and get instructions on how to use it click here

ABC format:

X:1

T:

M:4/4

Q:1/4=80

K:C

C8|DCCA,DC2^A,|A,CFGA3c/2c/2|cFFCED2G/2A/2|

^AGECF5/2||

(Hmmm... I must see if Alan has a more recent version of his program ... with up-to-date links!)

Regards,

Bob Bolton