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HE THOUGHT OF THE CHARMER. Irish, Air (6/8 time, "with life"). A Dorian. Standard. One part.

Source for notated version: "...copied from (a) very old well-written manuscript 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. 247, p. 119.

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