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''"Arrah, not at all, my dear friend, it is only the light of the moon, shining on high!"''<br> | ''"Arrah, not at all, my dear friend, it is only the light of the moon, shining on high!"''<br> | ||
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Joyce finds that there is a coarse, broadly humorous English song to the same air entitled "The Lamentation of Patrick Keane the tailor", which begins: | |||
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''I am a tailor by my trade, in cutting out I am quite handy,''<br> | |||
''And all I earn ev'ry day, my wife lays out in tea and brandy.''<br> | |||
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''Thaunalaw'' is Joyce's phonetic translation of the Irish title. | |||
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|f_printed_sources=P.W. Joyce ('''Ancient Irish Music'''), 1873; No. 57, pp. 57-58. | |f_printed_sources=P.W. Joyce ('''Ancient Irish Music'''), 1873; No. 57, pp. 57-58. | ||
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IT IS DAY. AKA - "Thaunalaw." Irish, Air (2/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. P.W. Joyce notes the air takes its name from the chorus of an Irish drinking song, which (in translation) has the first drinker exclaiming:
"It is day, it is day, it is day---in the early morning!"
While the second replies:
"Arrah, not at all, my dear friend, it is only the light of the moon, shining on high!"
Joyce finds that there is a coarse, broadly humorous English song to the same air entitled "The Lamentation of Patrick Keane the tailor", which begins:
I am a tailor by my trade, in cutting out I am quite handy,
And all I earn ev'ry day, my wife lays out in tea and brandy.
Thaunalaw is Joyce's phonetic translation of the Irish title.
