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Annotation:Days of Long Since Gone (The)
X:1 T:Days of Long Since Gone, The N:A version of "Auld Lang Syne" M:C L:1/8 R:Air B:Rev. Luke Donnellan music manuscript collection (c. 1909, Oriel B:region, south Ulster) K:G D2|G3G G2B2|A3G A2B2|G3....
DAYS OF LONG SINCE GONE, THE. AKA and see "Auld Lang Syne (1)." Irish, Air (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. "Days of Long Since Gone", a version of the song/air "Auld Lang Syne (1)", is contained in the music manuscript collection of curate and fiddler biography:Rev. Luke Donnellan (1878-1952), Oriel region, south Ulster[1]. The title also appears in a list of tunes in his repertoire brought by Philip Goodman, the last professional and traditional piper in Farney, Louth, to the Feis Ceoil in Belfast in 1898 (Breathnach, 1997).
- ↑ Donnellan researcher Gerry O'Connor came to believe the ms. is not the work of the curate but rather was originally compiled by an unknown but able fiddler over the course of a playing lifetime, probably in the late 19th century. The ms. later came into the possession of Donnellan, who was also a fiddler.
