Annotation:Moll Roone

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MOLL ROONE. AKA and see "Farewell, but Whenever." Irish, Air. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Thomas Moore (1779-1852) used the melody for his song "Farewell, but Whenever." His lyric begins:

Farewell, but whenever you welcome the hour,
That awakens the night-song of mirth in your bower,
Then think of the friend who once welcomed it too,
And forgot his own griefs to be happy with you.
His griefs may return, not a hope may remain,
Of the few that had brightened his pathway of pain,
But he ne'er will forget the short vision that threw
It's enchantment around him while lingering with you.

The tune contains much melodic material from the English melody "Nutting Girl (The)."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Clinton (Gems of Ireland), 1841; No. 51. Haverty & Co. (One Hundred Irish Airs), 1858; 214. Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music), 1977; vol. 3, No. 69.

Recorded sources: Tradition TLP 1024, Mary O'Hara.

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