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Never Was Piping So Gay

Found in Never_was_Piping_so_Gay from the Traditional Tune Archive abc collection

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X: 2
T:Never Was Piping So Gay
M:2/2
L:1/8
C:Ed Reavy
S:The Collected Compositions of Ed Reavy
R:reel
N:The concluding line of O'Driscoll's refrain in Yeats' poem, "The Host
N:of
N:he air".
N:O'Driscoll dreamed that his wife Bridget was taken by the Host as he
N:was
N:laying harmlessly at
N:cards with "the merry old men." When O'Driscoll awoke from his dream,
N:all that remained of the dream was the strange unearthly sound of a
N:pipe
N:piping away in the distant air- "And never was piping so sad, And
N:never was piping so gay."
Z:Joseph Reavy
K:G

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