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|f_annotation='''SORRY I AM.''' AKA - "Sorry I am for what I have done." Irish, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The source for the tune | |f_annotation='''SORRY I AM.''' AKA - "Sorry I am for what I have done." Irish, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The source for the tune was Cincinnati melodeon player Michael J. Kennedy (1900–1978), originally from Flaskagh Beag in County Galway. In 1923 he emigrated to Cincinnati in the United States, and spent his career there working for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. Kennedy sang this couplet on his recording before launching into the tune: | ||
|f_printed_sources=Richard Carlin | <blockquote> | ||
|f_recorded_sources=June A | ''Sorry I am for what I have done,''<br> | ||
''Sorry I am for what I have done;''<br> | |||
''Sorry I am for what I have done,''<br> | |||
''To marry the father instead of the son.''<Br> | |||
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|f_printed_sources=Richard Carlin ('''Master Collection of Dance Music for the Violin'''), 1984; No. 236, p. 137. | |||
|f_recorded_sources=June Appal 019, Michael J. Kennedy - "Melodeon" (1977). Sleepy Creek Music SCM 104, Grey Larson & André Marchand - "Les Marionettes" (2004). Alan Reid & Rachel Conlon - "A Quare Yield" (2017). | |||
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Latest revision as of 04:40, 23 November 2021
SORRY I AM. AKA - "Sorry I am for what I have done." Irish, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The source for the tune was Cincinnati melodeon player Michael J. Kennedy (1900–1978), originally from Flaskagh Beag in County Galway. In 1923 he emigrated to Cincinnati in the United States, and spent his career there working for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. Kennedy sang this couplet on his recording before launching into the tune:
Sorry I am for what I have done,
Sorry I am for what I have done;
Sorry I am for what I have done,
To marry the father instead of the son.
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