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MY HEART IS BLACK AS A SLOE. AKA - "Ta mo chroidhe chómh chíar dubh le h-áirne." Irish, Slow Air (3/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part.

Source for notated version: "copied from a MS. collection lent to Mr. Pigot by James Hardiman, the historian of Galway and editor of Hardiman's Irish Minstrelsy" (Joyce).

Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 764, p. 375.

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