Cruel Delany

 CRUEL DELANY. Irish, Air (3/4 time). E Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The lyric to the song is printed in Patrick Joseph McCall's Songs of Erin (1899, p. 94). It begins: As I walked by the banks of the beautiful Slaney, I chanced on my true love, and thus I did say;  "Ah, sorrow's the sight of you, cruel Delany, ''To win my poor heart and then fling it away."  Source for notated version'': Mr. J. McKenzie of Newtownards, "a great lover of Irish music," c. 1879 (Joyce). Printed source: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 324, p. 151.

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