Annotation:Vale of Coloun (The)
X:1 T:Vale of Coloun, The M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Air Q:"Mod.: time well marked." S:Joyce – Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (1909), No. 688 Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G D | DGG {A}GFG | ABc d2e | dBG {A}GFG | BAA A2D | DGG {A}GFG | ABc d2e {f/g/} |DBG AGA | {B}BGG G2 || d | g>ab g>fe | def g2 f/e/ | dBG {A}GFG | BAA A2d | gbg ege | def g2 f/e/ | dBG {B}AGA | BGG G2 ||
VALE OF COLOUN, THE. Irish, Air (6/8 time, "not as fast as a jig" {Joyce}). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Joyce): AAB (O'Neill). "The Vale of Coloun" was also entered in volume one (p. 192) of the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper James Goodman.
