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SÉ MO CHREACH MHAIDNE (Woe is me). AKA - "'Tis a pity I don't see my love" (Truagh nach bfaicim mo gradh). Irish, Air (9/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Donal O'Sulliven (1983) also found a note to the tune in Bunting's manuscripts )MS 33, bk 3, p. 53) "Is truancy nigh feckan mo graph. I do not see my love coming in a boat. I'm sorry I do not see my love. From B.B. From the County Mayo."

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - the index of the Irish collector Edward Bunting's 1840 collection gives that the tune was obtained from Mrs. Fitzgerald at Westport, County Mayo, in 1802.

Printed sources : - O'Sullivan/Bunting, 1983; No. 94, pp. 138-139.

Recorded sources: -

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+'''SÉ MO CHREACH MHAIDNE''' (Woe is me). AKA - "[['Tis a pity I don't see my love]]" ([[Truagh nach bfaicim mo gradh]]). Irish, Air (9/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Donal O'Sulliven (1983) also found a note to the tune in Bunting's manuscripts )MS 33, bk 3, p. 53) "Is truancy nigh feckan mo graph. I do not see my love coming in a boat. I'm sorry I do not see my love. From B.B. From the County Mayo."
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