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'''NANCY'S BRANCHING TRESSES''' (Cuil Craobaig Anna). Irish, Air (4/4 time). F Major (O'Neill): A Major (Clinton). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Clinton): AABB (O'Neill). Paul de Grae suggests the tune may be a reworking of Edward Bunting's "[[Anna na geraoiḃ]]" ([[Nancy of the Branching Tresses]]). "Nancy of the Branching Tresses" is also the name of a poem by Belfast nationalist poet Mary Balfour (1780-1819), begins:
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''The star of evening slowly rose,''<br> 
''Through shades of twilight gleaming,''<br> 
''It shone to witness Erin's woes,''<br> 
''Her children's life-blood streaming;''<br> 
'' 'Twas then, sweet star, thy pensive ray''<br> 
''Fell on the cold unconscious clay,''<br> 
''That wraps the breast of Bessy Grey,''<br> 
''In softened lustre beaming.''<br> 
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Bessy or Betsy Grey/Gray was a real-life heroine of the Rising of '98, from County Down. 
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<font color=red>''Source for notated version''</font>: - credited to Chicago Police Sergeant James O'Neill, a fiddler originally from County Down and Francis O'Neill's collaborator [O'Neill]. <br>
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<font color=red>''Printed sources''</font> : - Clinton ('''Gems of Ireland: 200 Airs'''), 1841; No. 57, p. 29. Smollet Holden ('''Collection of favourite Irish Airs'''), London, c. 1841; p. 19. O'Neill ('''Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies'''), 1903; No. 374, p. 65.
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