View source for Annotation:Believe Me if All Those Endearing Young Charms

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|f_annotation='''BELIEVE ME IF ALL (THOSE ENDEARING YOUNG CHARMS)'''. AKA and see "[[Irish Mad Song]]," "[[My Lodging is on the Cold Cold Ground]]." Irish, English; Air or Jig (6/8 or 3/4 time). A Major (Roche): G Major (Hall & Stafford, Johnson, Robbins). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Johnson): ABC (Roche): AABB (Hall & Stafford, Robbins). Thomas Moore's (1779–1852) sentimental favorite written for his young wife to reassure her of his devotion in the face of a ravaging illness (perhaps smallpox) which threatened her beauty. It appears arranged as a duet by editor W.J. Stafford in the '''Charlton Memorial Tune Book''' (1956). Moore's song is predated by the version known as "[[My Lodging is on the Cold Cold Ground]]," printed on broadsides and song-sheets in the mid-18th century. An Irish version is Petrie's "[[Oh Shrive Me Father]]," while an American shape-note hymn, "[[Chariot of Mercy]]" ('''Hesperian Harp''', Philadelphia, 1848), employs the air. See also the Scottish jig-time derivative "[[Greenholm]]" and "[[Gigue for Genny]]." W.H. Hay's 1869 American composition, "[[I'll Remember You Love in My Prayers]]," has some similar melodic material. 
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|f_printed_sources=Hall & Stafford ('''Charlton Memorial Tune Book'''), 1974; p. 51. Frank Harding ('''Harding's Original Collection'''), 1897; No. 152, p. 49.  
Johnson ('''Kitchen Musician No. 1: Waltz, Air and Misc'''), 1991; p. 12.
Robbins Music Corp. ('''The Robbins collection of 200 jigs, reels and country dances'''), New York, 1933; No. 80 p. 26. 
Roche ('''Collection of Traditional Irish Music, vol. 3'''), 1927; p. 11, no. 39. 
|f_recorded_sources=Sampler 8910, Mitzi Collins & Roxanne Ziegler – "St. Patrick's Day in the Morning."
Topic TSCD607, Billy Cooper, Walter & Daisy Bulwer – "English Country Music" (2000. Originally recorded 1962).
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