Annotation:Sorrowful Maiden (The)
X:1 T:Sorrowful Maiden Q:"Moderate" M:6/8 L:1/8 B:O'Neill's Music of Ireland. 1850 Melodies, 1903, p. 80, no. 461 Z:François-Emmanuel de Wasseige K:Gm G/F/|DGG/A/ G2A/B/|cAG/A/ F2G|AGG Ace|d3 d2d/=e/|fgg/=e/ fdd/c/| dBB A2 (3d/c/A/|GGA/G/ Acd/=e/|fed g2d/c/|B>BA/G/ Adc/A/|AGG G2|]
SORROWFUL MAIDEN, THE (An aindear bronac). Irish, Air (6/8 time). G Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Cazden (et al, 1982) finds this air a relative of "Mermaid (The)" as printed by P.W. Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs, 1909) and of his own Catskill Mountain (New York) collected "Maid on the Shore (1)." Further, he notes the original tune strain was derived from the Irish air "Drumindown," variously translated as "Dear Black Cow (1)," "Dear Brown Cow" or "Dear Brown Fair-Backed Cow."
