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OH! BLAME NOT MY LYRE. Irish, Air (6/8 time). D Mixolydian (O'Neill): B Flat Major (Clinton). Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC. The air was first published in Alexander Lee's Popular Ballads (1836).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Clinton (Gems of Ireland), 1841; No. 29, p. 15. O'Neill (O'Neill's Irish Music), 1915; No. 67, p. 42.

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