Annotation:Flowers of the Thorn

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 FLOWERS OF THE THORN ("Blodam Drain" or "Blodau'r Drain"). Welsh, Air (3/4 time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A Welsh air sometimes employed as a waltz. Classical composer Franz Joseph Haydn composed a song setting of the tune, with words that begin "How fondly I gaze..."  Source for notated version: Jerry Jenkins via fiddler Frank Orsini (Voorheesvelle, N.Y.) [Matthiesen].  Printed sources: Hamilton (Blodau'r Grug: 100 o Alawon Dawnsio Gwerin Poblogaidd Cymru/100 Popular Welsh Folk Dance Tunes), No. 75. "Matthiesen (The Waltz Book), 1992; p. 23.  Recorded sources:

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