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'''SMALL IS MY INCLINATION TO SLEEP.''' AKA - "'S beag mo shunnd ris a' chadal". Scottish, Slow Air (3/4 time). E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC. "The words to this air are to be found in most compilations of Gaelic songs; the melody, as sung by the editor's father, is highly worthy of English words" (Fraser).  
'''SMALL IS MY INCLINATION TO SLEEP.''' AKA - "'S beag mo shunnd ris a' chadal". Scottish, Slow Air (3/4 time). E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC. "The words to this air are to be found in most compilations of Gaelic songs; the melody, as sung by the editor's father, is highly worthy of English words" (Fraser). The editor of "The Native Music of Ireland, No. 32", published in '''The Citizen; or Dublin Monthly Magazine''' (vol. IV, No. XXIV, October, 1841, p. 209) noted that this tune is a member of tunes formed with phrases of four bars and three bars, "which is the division of the ordinary Psalm tune, in "Common Measure"." Others in this category are the air for "Lord Gregory ('''Smith's Scottish Minstrel, vol. 3''') and "[[O saw ye my father]]."
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SMALL IS MY INCLINATION TO SLEEP. AKA - "'S beag mo shunnd ris a' chadal". Scottish, Slow Air (3/4 time). E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC. "The words to this air are to be found in most compilations of Gaelic songs; the melody, as sung by the editor's father, is highly worthy of English words" (Fraser). The editor of "The Native Music of Ireland, No. 32", published in The Citizen; or Dublin Monthly Magazine (vol. IV, No. XXIV, October, 1841, p. 209) noted that this tune is a member of tunes formed with phrases of four bars and three bars, "which is the division of the ordinary Psalm tune, in "Common Measure"." Others in this category are the air for "Lord Gregory (Smith's Scottish Minstrel, vol. 3) and "O saw ye my father."

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Printed sources : - Fraser (The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles), 1816; No. 75, p. 27.

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