Annotation:If any of those children of hunger shall cry

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 IF ANY OF THOSE CHILDREN OF HUNGER SHALL CRY. Irish, Air (4/4 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. "This is a song of the time of the American War of Independence. I learned it when a child from hearing it often sung: and two verses (with the air) have remained in my memory" (Joyce). If any of those children of hunger shall cry, I hope you will relieve them, that are now standing by; I hope you will relieve them from hunger thirst and cold, While we are in America like jolly soldiers bold- With a fal-lal-li-da.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Song), 1909; No. 41, p. 23.  Recorded sources:

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