Belfast Mountain

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BELFAST MOUNTAIN. Irish, Air (4/4 time). E Flat Major. Standard tuning. One part. The name Belfast means 'crossing place by a sandbank'. A variant of the air is claimed by one authority as a Sussex song, however it is a variant of the popular air &quot;Banks of Claudy.&quot; &quot;Belfast Mountain&quot;, written by P.J. MacColl (who wrote &quot;Boulavogue&quot;), commemorates a Presbyterian-born leader of the Society of United Irishmen in Ulster during the 1798 rebellion, Henry Joy McCracken (1767-1798). It was on Belfast Mountain I heard a maid complain, And she vexed the sweet June evening with her heartbroken strain; Crying, 'Woe is me, life's anguish is more than I can dream, Since Henry Joy McCracken died on the gallows tree. Source for notated version: &quot;From Mr. P. MacDowell R.A., March, 1859&quot; [Stanford/Petrie]. Printed source: Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 558, p. 141.

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