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MY HEART IS SORE (Ta mo croide craidte). AKA and see "My lover is fled my heart is sore." Irish, Air (3/4 time, "plaintive"). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB.

Source for notated version: credited to Chicago Police Sergeant James O'Neill, a fiddler originally from County Down and Francis O'Neill's collaborator [O'Neill].

Printed sources: O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 563, p. 99.

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