Annotation:My heart and lute

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MY HEART AND LUTE. AKA - ""I give thee all, I can no more." Irish, Air (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. "My heart and lute" is the name of a song written by Thomas Moore (1779-1852). The first stanza goes:

I give thee all — I can no more —
Tho' poor the offering be;
My heart and lute are all the store
That I can bring to thee.
A lute whose gentle song reveals
The soul of love full well;
And, better far, a heart that feels
Much more than lute could tell.

The tune appears in E.M. Meister's Admired Cottillions, for Balls & Private Parties, No. 2 (New York, c. 1825), and multi-instrumentalist John Rook's (Waverton, Cumbria) large 1840 music manuscript collection.