Loch Na Garr

X:96
T:Loch Na Garr
B:Joyce, P. W.; "Old Irish Folk Music and Songs"
H:Byron's "Loch na Garr" was often sung by the Limerick people to the
H:following slow Irish air, which may be compared with "The Bunch of Green
H:Rushes that Grew At the Brim" (Moore's "This life is all chequered").
R:song air
N:  [Here are the words to Byron's poem, typed in by your editor Earendil]
W:    Ah! There my young footsteps in infancy wander'd;
W:    My cap was the bonnet, my cloak was the plaid;
W:    On chieftans long perish'd, my memeory ponder'd
W:    As daily I strode through the pine cover'd glade,
W:    I sought not my home till the day's dying glory
W:    Gave place to the rays of the bright polar star;
W:    For fancy was cheered by tradional story,
W:    Disclosed by the natives of dark Loch na Garr
W:
W:    Years have rolled on, Loch na Garr, since I left you,
W:    Years must elapse ere I tread you again;
W:    Nature of verdure and flow'rs has bereft you
W:    Yet still you are dearer than Albions plain.
W:    England, thy beauties are tame and domestic
W:    To one who roved o'er the mountains afar;
W:    Oh for the crags that are wild and majestic!
W:    The steep frowning glories of dark Loch na Garr.
L:1/8
M:3/4
K:F
A>d|d2 c2 d2|B2 AGFD|c2 d2 A2|B2 A2 G2|F2 G2 A2|B2 A2 G2|A2 F2 D2|d4:|
d>e|f2 e2 f2|g4 f>g|a2 f2 d2|dc A3 A|f2 e2 f2|g2 f2 g2|a2 f2 d2|d4 fg|
a2 f2 a2|g4 fe|d2 c2 d2|de Hf2 AG|F2 G2 A2|{A}d3 c A2|{F}GF D2 D2|D4||

Alternative sources for this tune:

• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/AllanGarvin/All/0095
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/OTIS_Irish_Session/melnets_big_abc_file/07690
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/home.quicknet.nl/england/3736
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/kirby98.fsnet.co.uk/lo/Loch_Na_Garr_1/0000
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/melnets_big_abc_file/07690

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