I first heard this tune from the music of the TuIla Céilí Band. It came into our kitchen in Co. Offaly on one of those evenings when we turned our radio on for a half hour of Ciarán Mac Mathúna’s program, ‘A Job of Journeywork’. This was in the late 1950s when Ciarán’s mobile recording gave us the hidden music of our country.

 d2- | d=c AG FA D=F | EE=cE dEcE | d=c AG FA DF |
 Ad d=c dg fe | d=c AG F/G/A D=F | EE =cE dEcE | d=c{/B} AG FADF |
 Ad dc d d2 e || fe df ef ge | af ge af ge | fe d/e/f efge |
 af ge fdde | fe df ef ge | af ge fe fg | af ge f/e/d ec |
 Ad dc dg fe || d=c AG FA D=F | EE=cE dEcE | d=c AG FA DF |
 Addc defe | d=c AG FA D=F | EE=cE dEcE | d=c AG FA DF |
 Ad dc d d2 e || fe df ef ge | af ge af ge | fe d/e/f efge |
 af ge fdde | fA df ef g/f/e | af ge fe fg | af ge fd ec |
 Addc dgfe || d=c AG F/G/A D=F | EE=cE dEcE | d=c AG FA DF |
 Addc defe | d2 AG FA D=F | EE=cE dEcE | d=c AG FADF |
 Ad dc d3 e || fe df ef ge | e<a ge afge | fe d/e/f ef ge |
 af ge fdde | fe d/e/f ef ge | af ge fe fg | af ge fd ec |
 Ad dc d4- | d4 |