Annotation:Cailín Deas Crúidte na mBó
Tune properties and standard notation
CAILÍN DEAS CRÚIDTE NA mBÓ. Irish, Air (9/8). E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The title appears in a list of tunes in his repertoire brought by Philip Goodman, the last professional and traditional piper in Farney, Louth, to the Feis Ceoil in Belfast in 1898 (Breathnach, 1997). "Cailín Deas Crúidte na mBó" the the burden, in Irish, of a song that is primarily in English. It begins:
It was on a fine summer's morning,
When the birds sweetly tuned on each bough;
I heard a fair maid sing most charming
As she sat a-milking her cow;
Her voice, it was chanting melodious,
She left me scarce able to go;
My heart it is soothed in solace,
My Cailín deas crúite na mbó.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Roche Collection, 1982; vol. 3, p. 12, No. 43.
Recorded sources: Tara Records 2002, Christy Moore - "The Iron Behind the Velvet" (1978. Learned from the late Uilleann piper Leo Rowsome).