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CLOSE YOUR EYES (Dún do shúile). Irish, "Nurse Song" (Lullabye) {2/4 time}. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part.

Source for notated version: "This air...from Mrs. J.H. O'Brien, Cork" (Joyce), although Joyce found it in the (William) Forde Collection.

Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 651, p. 329.

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