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|f_annotation='''WINTER (IT) IS PAST, THE''' (Ta an geimread tart). AKA and see "[[Curragh of Kildare]]." Irish, Air (4/4 time). D Major (O'Neill): G Major (Joyce): F Mixolydian (Stanford/Petrie). Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. "I took down the words and air of this song about 1852 from Kate Cudmore of Glenosheen, Co. Limerick: and I gave both to Dr. Petrie, who published them in his '''Ancient Music of Ireland''' (1854). The air reappears in Stanford-Petrie (1905). There is a Scotch version of the words: but the Scotch air which appears modern is different from ours, as given here. The words originated in Ireland" (Joyce). In fact, the 'Scotch version' referred to by Joyce can be found in James Oswald's 18th century '''Caledonian Pocket Companion Book 10''', while Robert Burns, the Scots national poet, rewrote the words "The Winter it is Past" in the publication '''The Scots Musical Museum''' in the early 19th century. Burns retained the tune used by Oswald, which, while no relation to Joyce's melody, is one of a family of melodies that also includes "Bonnie May," Cazden's (et al, 1982) Catskill Mountain (N.Y.)-collected "Fare You Well, My Own True Love," and the sacred harp hymn "Tribulation."


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''The rose upon the brier''<br  />
''By the water running clear''<br  />
''Gives joy to th linnet and the bee;''<br  />
''Their little hearts are blest,''<br  />
''But mine is not at rest,''<br  />
''Since my truelove is absent from me.'' [Joyce]<br  />
|f_source_for_notated_version=James O'Neill [O'Neill]. Fiddler and Chicago Police Sgt. James O'Neill, originally from County Down, was musically literate and served as Francis O'Neill's transcriber and collaborator on his early volumes.
|f_printed_sources=Joyce ('''Old Irish Folk Music and Songs'''), 1909; No. 427, pp. 238 239. Moffat ('''Minstrelsy of Ireland'''), 1897; Appendix p. 342. O'Neill ('''Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies'''), 1903; No. 300, p. 52. Stanford/Petrie ('''Complete Collection of Petrie's Irish Music'''), 1905; No. 439, p. 111.
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