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I'LL MARRY AND I WON'T BE A NUN. Irish, Air and March (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC. The march is similar to the "Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine (1)" family of tunes. As a song, it was perhaps also set to the tune of "O'Sullivan More's March (1)," "O'Sullivan Mor's March (1)."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: O'Neill (O'Neill's Irish Music), 1915; No. 102, p. 57.

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