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'''ONE DAY FOR RECREATION.''' Irish, Air (2/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The words to the air were composed with lines alternating in English and Irish (i.e. a "macaronic" song), which, according to Sean O Boyle (1976), reflects the bilingual period in the historical process of the supplanting of the Gaelic language by English in Ireland.  

One day for recreation
Is gan e/inne beo im chuideachta,
I spied a charming fair maid,
Ina haonar is i/ i siopa istigh.
She was singing like an angel,
Is me/ ag e/isteacht lena binne-ghuth;
I whispered soft and easy -
Is e/ du/irt si/: Stad ded radaireacht!
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         Curfa/ <Chorus>:  Anonn is anall, a Mha/iri/n,
                           Do mha/lai/ is do bheilteanna;
                           Is a bhean na stocai/ mba/na,
                           Ba bhrea/ liom bheith ag iomaidh leat.
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''Source for notated version'': 
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''Printed sources'': Cranitch ('''Irish Fiddle Book'''), 1996; p. 44.
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''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Circa Records CIRCA 003, Na Filí - "One Day for Recreation" (1978). </font>
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