Annotation:Dá bhFaighinn mo Rogha

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DÁ bhFAIGHINN MO ROGHA. AKA – "If I Had My Choice." AKA and see "Kerry Cow (The)." Irish, Air or Polka. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The song tells of a woman who would not marry the blacksmith, tailor or fisherman, but instead selects the fiddle player—"se an bheileadoir is fearr liom."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cranitch (The Irish Fiddle Book), 1996; p. 46.

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