Banks of Banna (The)

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BANKS OF BANNA. AKA and see "When Through Life Unblest We Roam," "Molly Asthore," "Shepherds I Have Lost My Love," "Had I a Heart for Falsehood Framed," "Oh! Nevermore." Irish, Air (4/4 time). C Major. Standard tuning. AB. An air very popular in the 18th century, according to George Moffat, to which Thomas Moore set "When thro' life unblest we rove" and George Ogle set "Shepherds I have lost my love." Moffat finds the Banna melody "merely an adaptation" of an older Irish air, "Sin sios agus suas liom" (Down beside me), published in Daniel Wright's Aria di Camera (c. 1730) {Moore also wrote a song to this latter air, called "Oh where is the slave"}. See also note for "Down Beside Me." Printed source: O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 128, pg. 23.

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