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LAMENTATION OF JAMES MURPHY, THE (Seumas Ua Morochoe). Irish, Slow Air (3/4 time). D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB.

Source for notated version: "Paddy Conneely, the Galway piper," via Forde (Joyce).

Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Song), 1909; No. 461, pp. 257-258.

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