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When I was home in Ireland in 1982 my father arranged for me to visit his friend, a local parish priest, Father Kevin O’Byrne. I believed this was a thinly concealed effort at trying to have me return to the Church. Instead the priest asked me to compose an air in honor of the Roman Catholic church in Kilclonfert, which is three miles from our local church in Daingean, Co. Offaly. I responded to his request with unusual success and the recorded air is the result.
dB d/B/G E2 | E2 D3 D | EF/G/ E4 | E D3 FA |
{/c} e3 e2 d/B/ | d4 dB | G E2 E FG/B/ | D2 D2 B,D/B,/ |
A,B, E2 EA | F3 G/F/ ED- | D3 A3/2 G/F |{/G} E3 E D2- |
DE F/G/ E3 | E D3 FA |{/c} e3 e2 d/B/ | d4 dB |
(3G/c/G/ G2 G Bd/B/ | A2 F/A/ F2 F | A2 F/G/E/ D2- D/ | B, E3 E>F |
G/ E4- E3/2- | A3 A ^c<A | E4- EA/B/ | A3 A ^c<A |
e3 e2 d/^c/ | d3 d ^cA | G E3 E>D | B,2 B2 BA |
G3 G F(3G/F/E/ | D4 Bd | e3/2 e B/ d3 | dB G/c/G G2 |
GF (3G/F/E/ D3 | B, E3 Ed/B/ | A4 AB | (3F/G/F/ E3 EF |
G/ E4- E3/2 |