Annotation:Dew on the Grass (The)

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 DEW ON THE GRASS, THE. Irish, Air (4/4 time, "moderately slow"). A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The second strain has ten measures instead of the usual eight.  Source for notated version: Copied from one of "two very old well-written manuscripts lent to me in 1873 by Mr. J. O'Sullivan, of Bruff, Co. Limerick" (Joyce).  Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 231, p. 112.  Recorded sources:

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