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Thread #59160   Message #940675
Posted By: belfast
26-Apr-03 - 11:19 AM
Thread Name: Tune Add: The Granemore Hare
Subject: Tune Add: The Granemore Hare
X:1
T:The Granemore Hare
M:3/4
Q:75
K:G
g>f|"Am"ede|"G"dGA|BAG|"Am"A2B/A/|
"G"GAB|ded|dBA|G2d/d/|"Am"eaf|
"G"ged|"Am"eaf|"G"g2f/g/|"Am"age|
"G"dGA|BAG|"Am"A3|z2

I noted elsewhere a request for this tune. Maybe somebody has already posted it. If so, I couldn't find it. This is the air as I know it. Mind you I can't recall where or when I learned it but I'm fairly sure that what I've put down here is what is sung in and around south Armagh.

Robin Morton's book "Folksongs sung in Ulster" has a version but the tune that is given there is, if I remember rightly, "Villikens". I have never ever heard "The Granemore Hare" sung to the tune of "Villikens", "The Oul' Orange Flute" or"Sweet Betsy from Pike".