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MY WIFE IS SICK AND LIKE TO DIE, OH DEAR WHAT SHALL I DO. AKA and see "Castle of Dromore." Irish, Air (6/8 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The melody appears in Hoffman's collection of Petrie's tunes (Dublin, 1877) and in O'Neill's Music of Ireland (1903) as the "Castle of Dromore."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 509, p. 129.

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