Come All Ye Fair Maidens

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Theme code Index	1126L 1162
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Composer/Core Source
Region	Ireland
Genre/Style	Irish
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	6/8
History
Structure	One part
Editor/Compiler	P.W. Joyce
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Old Irish Folk Music and Songs
Tune and/or Page number	No. 167, p. 84
Year of publication/Date of MS	1909
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COME ALL YE FAIR MAIDENS. Irish, Air (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. O'Neill (1913) points out this is an example of the class of tunes facetiously termed "Come, all ye..." on account of the comparatively large number of songs which began with those words in British Isles tradition.

Come all ye fair maidens, take warning by me,
And never look up to the top of a tree;
For the leaves they will wither and the roots they will die;
And my love has forsak'n me, and sorry am I,
My dear, and sorry am I. (Joyce)

Source for notated version: "Ned Goggin the professional fiddler of Glenosheen Co. Limerick (1844 to 1850)" {Joyce}.

Printed source: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Song), 1909; No. 167, p. 84.

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