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'''MY DARLING KATHLEEN''' (Caitilin Mo Muirnin). AKA and see "[[Kathleen Mavourneen]]." Irish, Air (3/4 time, "with feeling"). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. | '''MY DARLING KATHLEEN''' (Caitilin Mo Muirnin). AKA and see "[[Kathleen Mavourneen]]." Irish, Air (3/4 time, "with feeling"). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. This very popular song was written in 1837 by Julia M. Crawford (c. 1799-1860) to music by Frederick Nicholls Crouch (1808-1896). Crawford is thought to have been born in County Cavan, and wrote poetry and fiction, although nothing so enduring as this song. The lyric begins: | ||
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''Kathleen Mavourneen! the gray dawn is breaking,''<br> | |||
''The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill,''<br> | |||
''The lark from her light wing the bright dew is shaking,''<br> | |||
''Kathleen Mavourneen, what slumbering still?''<br> | |||
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CHO:<br> | |||
''Oh! hast thou forgotten how soon we must sever?''<br> | |||
''Oh! hast thou forgotten this day we must part,''<br> | |||
''It may be for years, and it may be forever,''<br> | |||
''Oh! why art thou silent thou voice of my heart?''<br> | |||
''It may be for years, and it may be forever,''<br> | |||
''Then why art thou silent Kathleen Mavourneen?''<br> | |||
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Sound recordings of the tune date to at least 1911, when Irish tenor John McCormack waxed it on a cylinder. | |||
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See also listing at:<br> | |||
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [http://www.irishtune.info/tune/3452/]<br> | |||
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/k01.htm#Katma]<br> | |||
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MY DARLING KATHLEEN (Caitilin Mo Muirnin). AKA and see "Kathleen Mavourneen." Irish, Air (3/4 time, "with feeling"). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. This very popular song was written in 1837 by Julia M. Crawford (c. 1799-1860) to music by Frederick Nicholls Crouch (1808-1896). Crawford is thought to have been born in County Cavan, and wrote poetry and fiction, although nothing so enduring as this song. The lyric begins:
Kathleen Mavourneen! the gray dawn is breaking,
The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill,
The lark from her light wing the bright dew is shaking,
Kathleen Mavourneen, what slumbering still?
CHO:
Oh! hast thou forgotten how soon we must sever?
Oh! hast thou forgotten this day we must part,
It may be for years, and it may be forever,
Oh! why art thou silent thou voice of my heart?
It may be for years, and it may be forever,
Then why art thou silent Kathleen Mavourneen?
Sound recordings of the tune date to at least 1911, when Irish tenor John McCormack waxed it on a cylinder.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 622, p. 110.
Recorded sources: Nimbus Records NI 7854, "John McCormack in Song."
See also listing at:
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [2]