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'''ACCURSED KERRYMAN, THE''' (An Ciarraioch Mallaithe). Irish, Air (3/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning. AAB.The melody appears in Edward Bunting's second collection of Irish tunes (1809). Ó Canainn (1978) bemoans antiquarian P.W. Joyce's cavalier treatment of the text of this famous song in the latter's '''Ancient Irish Music''' (1875) wherein he writes: 
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''Of the Irish song I retain only a few fragments, which are not'' 
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''worth preserving. Perhaps the reader will be better pleased if'' 
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''I give instead a song of my brother's, composed to suit the air.''
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Lyrics the song go:
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''Má leanaim go dian tú siar chun Cairibreach''
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''Caillfead mo chiall mura driallfair abhaile liom,''
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''óró, bead ag sileadh na ndeor.''
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''Ná tar im dheoidh gan mórchuid airgid,''
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''stampa Rí Shacsain go cruinn i dtaisce agat,''
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''óró, i gcomhair costais an róid.''
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''Ní bheidh cloig ar ár ndornaibh ó rómhar na ngarraithe''
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''ná ó chruachadh na móna ná an fómhair á leathadh orainn,''
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''beidh rince fada againn más é is fearra leat,''
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''ór agus airgead, ól agus beathuisce,''
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''óró, fad a mhairfimid beo.'' 
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''Do shiúlfainn an saol go léir is an Bhreathnaisc leat''
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''is níorbh fhearr liom bheith in Éirinn ag éisteacht Aifrinn,''
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''óró, nó i Sasana Nua.''
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''Ach ná creidim ód' bhéal dhá dtrian dá nabrann''
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''mar is fear magaidh thú 'bhíos ag mealladh ban''
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''óró, le do reacaireacht spóirt.''
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''A chumann mo chléibhe is a réaltan mhaisealach,''
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''ní neosfainn bréag ó m' bhéal ar chapall duit''
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''ar eagla an pheaca is go mbeimis damanta.''
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''Grá atá ceangailte im lár nach scarfainn leat''
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''óró go dtéad síos faoin bhfód.''
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''Source for notated version'': 
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''Printed sources'': Ó Canainn ('''Traditional Slow Airs of Ireland'''), 1995; No. 76, p. 67.
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