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WHILE THE STARS WERE BRIGHT. Irish, Slow Air (3/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB.

Source for notated version: "(Taken) down from Ned Goggin the professional fiddler of Glenosheen Co. Limerick (1844 to 1850)" {Joyce}.

Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 166, p. 84.

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