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|f_annotation='''TERENCE'S FAREWELL.'''AKA - "Terence's Farewell to Kathleen." Irish, Air (3/4 time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Boston music publisher Elias Howe printed the tune in his “Irish Airs” section of his '''Musician's Omnibus No. 3''' (1865). Lady Dufferin's | |f_annotation='''TERENCE'S FAREWELL.''' AKA - "Terence's Farewell to Kathleen." AKA and see "[[Pretty Maid Milking her Cow (The)]]." Irish, Air (3/4 time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Boston music publisher Elias Howe printed the tune in his “Irish Airs” section of his '''Musician's Omnibus No. 3''' (1865) with the name "Terence's Farewell," although the melody is a traditional air called "Pretty Maid Milking Her Cow". The title "Terence's Farewell" is from a song set to melody by Lady Dufferin (1807-67) called "Terence's Farewell to Kathleen." Lady Dufferin was Helen Selina Blackwood (née Sheridan, a granddaughter of playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan). Although Irish, Helen was raised primarily in London and South Africa. She married Captain William Blackwood (1826-1902) who succeeded to the Clandeboye Estate in County Down in 1839. He went to Skibbereen to assist in the Famine relief effort there in 1847. "Terence's Farewell to Kathleen" begins: | ||
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''Oh my Kathleen you're going to leave me,''<br> | |||
''All alone by myself in this place;''<br> | |||
''But I'm sure that you'll never deceive me,''<br> | |||
''Oh no if there's love in that face.''<br> | |||
''Though England's a beautiful country,''<br> | |||
''Full of elegant boys and what then;''<br> | |||
''You'll never forget your poor Terence,''<br> | |||
''You'll come back to old Ireland again.''<br> | |||
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Lady Dufferin's works were published in '''A Selection of the Songs of Lady Dufferin''' (1895), which also included her "Lament of the Irish Emigrant" and "The Bay of Dublin". | |||
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TERENCE'S FAREWELL. AKA - "Terence's Farewell to Kathleen." AKA and see "Pretty Maid Milking her Cow (The)." Irish, Air (3/4 time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Boston music publisher Elias Howe printed the tune in his “Irish Airs” section of his Musician's Omnibus No. 3 (1865) with the name "Terence's Farewell," although the melody is a traditional air called "Pretty Maid Milking Her Cow". The title "Terence's Farewell" is from a song set to melody by Lady Dufferin (1807-67) called "Terence's Farewell to Kathleen." Lady Dufferin was Helen Selina Blackwood (née Sheridan, a granddaughter of playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan). Although Irish, Helen was raised primarily in London and South Africa. She married Captain William Blackwood (1826-1902) who succeeded to the Clandeboye Estate in County Down in 1839. He went to Skibbereen to assist in the Famine relief effort there in 1847. "Terence's Farewell to Kathleen" begins:
Oh my Kathleen you're going to leave me,
All alone by myself in this place;
But I'm sure that you'll never deceive me,
Oh no if there's love in that face.
Though England's a beautiful country,
Full of elegant boys and what then;
You'll never forget your poor Terence,
You'll come back to old Ireland again.
Lady Dufferin's works were published in A Selection of the Songs of Lady Dufferin (1895), which also included her "Lament of the Irish Emigrant" and "The Bay of Dublin".
