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Ann Sheehy of Lixnaw, Co. Kerry comes to mind when I remember first hearing this hornpipe. I later learned it from the playing of Winston ‘Scotty’ Fitzgerald, who played it in his own Cape Breton style. His fiddle version of it was in fast reel time, which left little room for its melodic sentiment to breathe forth in its notes. As a hornpipe, its sentiment has a Victorian era quality, or perhaps a lullabye from a distant childhood. Fiddler Seamus Connolly of Killaloe, Co. Clare and now Boston gave me the title of this.
Bc | dBGD B,DGB | cdAF D2 AB | cA FD A,D FA |
(3BAG DB, G,2 Bc | dB (3GAB cBce | gf gf ed{/e} cB | AB ce dD FA |
(3GBG GA G2 Bc || dB GD B,D GB | cd (3AGF D2 AB | cA FD A,D FA |
(3BAG DB, G,2 GB | dB (3GAB cBce | gf gf ed cB | AB ce dD FA |
(3GBG GA GEDC || B,D GD B,D GD | B,D GB dB GB | cc AB cd ef |
gd BG AG ED | B,D GD B,D GD | CE GE CE GE |{/=F} DDAB cD^FA |
(3GBG GA GEDC || B,D GD B,D GD | B,D GB dG AB | (3cBc AB cdef |
gd BG AG ED | B,D GD B,D GD | CE GE CE GE |{/=F} DDAB cD^FA |
(3GBG GF GABc || dc Bc dg fg | ed cB (3ABA AB | cBAB cBce |
fedc (3BdB Bc | dgfg dgfg | da^ga daga | dbbd c'd{/e} fa |
g2 ga g2 Bc || dcBc dgfg | edcB (3ABA AB | cBAB cBce |
fedc (3BdB Bc | dgfg dgfg | da^ga daga | dbbd c'dfa |
g2 ga gGBc || dBGD B,DGB | cdAF D2 AB | cA FD A,D FA |
(3BAG DB, G,2 Bc | dB (3GAB cBce | g2 gf ed{/e} cB | AB ce dD FA |
G2 GF GABc || dB GD B,D GB | cd AF D2 AB | cA FD A,D FA |
(3BAG DB, G,2 GB | dB (3GAB cBce | g2 gf edcB | AB ce dD FA |
(3GBG GA GEDC || B,D GD B,D GD | B,D GB dB GB | (3cec AB cdef |
gd BG AG ED | B,D GD B,D GD | CE GE CE GE |{/=F} DDAB cD^FA |
(3GBG GA GEDC || B,D GD B,D G2 | B,D EG dB GB | cBAB cdef |
gd BG AG ED | B,D GD B,D GD | CE GE CE GE |{/=F} DDAB cD^FA |
(3GBG GF GABc || dc Bc dg fg | ed cB (3ABA AB | cBAB cBce |
fedc (3BdB Bc | dgfg dgfg | da^ga daga | dbbd c'd{/e} fa |
g2 gf g2 Bc || dcBc dgfg | edcB (3ABA AB | cBAB cBce |
fedc (3BdB Bc | dgfg dgfg | da^ga daga | dbbd c'dfa |
g2 dB G4 |