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'''CEANNABHÁIN BHÁNA, NA''' (The Little Fair Cannavans). AKA and see "[[Cotton Grass Flowers (The)]]." Irish, Air or Slip Jig. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was lilted as an infant-dawdling song, with appropriate lyrics, and was collected in Connemara from Colm Ó Caoidheáin by collector and piper Séamus Ennis in the 1940's. The words are nonsense lyrics in Irish:
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''Gairm fhéin,gairm fhéin,gairm fhéin,''<br>
''Gairm fhéin Micil is Máire''<br>
''Gairm fhéin,gairm fhéin,gairm fhéin,''<br>
''Seo iad na ceannabháin Bhana.''<br>
''Cuirfidh mé,Cuirfidh mé,Cuirfidh mé,''<br>
''Cuirfidh mé suas ag sadbh Sheáin thú''<br>
''Cuirfidh mé,Cuirfidh mé,Cuirfidh mé,''<br>
''Is Cuirfidh sí buirín sa ngleann ort.''<br>
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Translated it goes something like this (according to the Cran album liner notes):
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''Good for you, Mical and Maire!''<br>
''They are the white headed Canavans.''<br>
''I will send you up to Sean's Sive''<br>
''And she will put a spancel on you in the glen.''<br>
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''Source for notated version'': 
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''Printed sources'': Tubridy ('''Irish Traditional Music, Book Two'''), 1999; p. 41.  
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''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Black Rose Records BRRCD003 Cran - "Lover's Ghost" (2000). Comhaltas Records, Tommy Keane (1983. Learned from Seamus Ennis). CCF 30, Liam O'Flynn, Sean Keane & Matt Molloy - "The Fire Aflame." Piping Pig Records PPPCD001, Jimmy O'Brien- Moran - "Seán Reid's Favourite" (1996).</font>
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