Annotation:De Bharr an Cnoch

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 DE BHARR AN CNOCH (Over the Hill). AKA - "De Bharr na gCnoc." Irish, Slow Air (3/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The air is to an Irish Jacobite song by County Cork poet Seán Clárach Mac Domhnaill (1691–1754). It begins: Ó seal do bhíos im' mhaighdean shéimh, Is anois im' bhaintreach chaithe tréith; Tá mo chéile ag treabhadh na dtonn go tréan, ''De bharr na gcnoc 's an imigcéin. ''  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Ó Canainn (Traditional Slow Airs of Ireland), 1995; No. 114, p. 97.  Recorded sources: Green Linnet SIF-1084, Eugene O'Donnell - "The Foggy Dew" (1988).

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