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DOWN BY THE BANKS OF THE SWEET PRIMROSES. Irish, Air (3/4 time). C Major (Joyce): B Flat Major (Stanford/Petrie). Standard tuning (fiddle). One part.

Source for notated version: "...given to Forde by Patrick MacDowell, R.A., the distinguished sculptor: born in Belfast 1799: died in 1870. He gave a great number of airs to Dr. Petrie also, who has published many of them in his Ancient Music of Ireland: and many are included in the Stanford-Petrie collection. He was an ardent collector of Irish music, and drew his stores from every part of the country" (Joyce); "From Mr. MacDowell, Dec., 1859" [Stanford/Petrie].

Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 519, p. 281. Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 804, p. 201.

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