Annotation:Have You Seen My Valentine?

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 HAVE YOU SEEN MY VALENTINE? ("An Faica To Mo Balantine?" or "A bfaca tu mo bhalentine"). Irish, Slow Air (3/4 time). E Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. See also collector Edward Bunting's "A bfaca tu mo bhalentine", of which O'Neill's piece is identical. Paul de Grae identifies this air as a variant of "Raibh Tú ag an gCarraig? (An)" (Have You Been at Carrick?). O'Neill (1903) also prints a major-mode variant as "Charming Fair Maid (The)]."  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 592, p. 104.  Recorded sources:

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