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An Gadaighe Grána

Found in UglyThiefIeDeath.abc from the John Chambers abc collection
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An Gadaighe Grána - staff notation
X:16
T:An Gadaighe Gr\'ana
T:The Ugly Thief (ie, death)
T:The Goddhee Grawna
B:Joyce, P. W.; "Old Irish Folk Music and Songs"
R:song
H:  Written from memory, as I learned it at home when a child.  There is a
H:good setting in the Pigot Collection, where it is called "Castle Hyde,"
H:showing that that celebrated song was sometimes sung to it.  There was an
H:Irish song to this air in which Shauneen gives an account of his encounter
H:with Death.  The following is a free translation of the first verse into
H:Munster-English dialect:
W:On the road to Lim'rick as I walked fornenst it,
W:  I met ould Daeth by a ditch side there:
W:The ugly thief with his poll against it,
W:  Looked down on me with a dreadful stare.
W:"Welcome poor Shauneen, how far are you walking?
W:  I'm a long time stalking by the ditch for you."
W:"Wisha my bones are exhausted, and there's no use talking,
W:  My heart is scalded, a Wirrastru."
L:1/8
M:3/4
Z:Allan Garvin
K:F
"Rather slow"f/e/|dc A2 c/A/G/A/|FF F>G A f/e/|dc A2 c/A/G/A/|FF F2:|
F/G/|AA f2 ef|dd d>c A A/B/|cc c2 Ac|de f3 f/e/|
dc A2 c/A/G/A/|FF F>G A f/e/|dc A2 c/A/G/A/|FF F3||

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