Bhíosa Lá I bPort Láirge

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 BHÍOSA LÁ I bPORT LÁIRGE. AKA and see "The Dainty Besom Maker," "Forgive the muse that slumbered," "The Gimlet," "I'd mourn the hopes that leave me," "Johnny's Grey Breeks [2]," "The Old Lea Rigg," "Little Mary Cullenan," "Little Sheila Connellan," "Maureen from Giberland," "Port Láirge," "The Rose Tree [1]", "The Rose Tree in Full Bearing." Irish, Polka. Ireland, Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. A tune with a long history in the tradition in country dance and air forms, here rendered as a Sliabh Luachra polka. Moylan's source, accordion player O'Leary, thought that fiddler Denis Murphy had the English words to this tune, before he died. Source for notated version: Johnny O'Leary (Sliabh Luachra region), recorded in recital at Na Píobairí Uileann, February, 1981 [Moylan]. Printed source: Moylan (Johnny O'Leary), 1994; No. 55, p. 32. Tubridy (Irish Traditional Music, vol. 1), 1999; p. 9. __NORICHEDITOR__