Annotation:Cill Chais

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CILL CHAIS. AKA - "What are we going to do without timber?" Irish, Slow Air (3/4 time). E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (Ó Canainn): AB (Russell). The tune appears as "An Arran Air" in Hoffman's 1877 arrangement of melodies mostly taken from the George Petrie collection.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Russell (The Piper's Chair), 1989; p. 28. Ó Canainn (Traditional Slow Airs), 1995; No. 90, p. 77.

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