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Tune Annotations:	'''HE LEFT THE POOR WIDOWS A-WEEPING'''. Irish, Air (3/4 time). F Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "A song of the war time" (Joyce). The melody was also entered into Book 2 of the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork uilleann piper and Church of Ireland cleric [[wikipedia:James_Goodman_(musicologist)]] (1828-1896). Goodman copied the tune from the music manuscript collection of Irish collector John Edward Pigot (1822–1871), while Joyce had it from collector William Forde (c. 1795-1850), who noted it from the playing of fiddler Hugh O'Beirne (Co. Leitrim). However, Goodman and Joyce's versions are identical.
Source for notated version:	Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim, professional fiddler Hugh O'Beirne, 1846, via collector William Forde (Joyce).
Printed sources:	Joyce ('''Old Irish Folk Music and Songs'''), 1909; No. 641, p. 325.
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