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HAVE YOU SEEN OR HAVE YOU HEARD. AKA and see "A Mháire! is deas do gháire." Irish, Air (4/4 or 6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Petrie): AABB (Holden). An Irish version of "(My) Ain Kind Dearie (O)/My Ain Kind Dearie," part of a family of tunes in both duple and triple meter. See note for "annotation:Baile Bheachain." See also "Sweet Innisfallen" and "Widow Machree."


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - "Vide Holden's vol. From old MS of Father Walsh" and "As sung by (the Irish collector) Mr. Joyce's father" [Stanford/Petrie].

Printed sources : - Smollet Holden (Collection of favourite Irish Airs), London, c. 1841; p. 6. Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; Nos. 640 & 641, pp. 160-161.






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