Annotation:Wind that Shakes the Barley (3) (The)
X:1 T:Wind that Shakes the Barley [3] S:Various; Solas "Sunny Spells..." Z:Jerome Colburn M:6/8 K:Em B | B2 B A2 B | G2 A F2 G | E2 E ^D^C^D |1 E G2-G2 :|2 E E2-E2|| B, | E2 F G2 A | B2 A G2 A | B2 e e2 ^d | e2 ^d B2 e | e2 B A2 B | G2 A F2 G | E2 E ^D^C^D | E E2-E2 |]**
WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY [3], THE. Irish, Air (6/8 time). E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B. The song "Wind that shakes the barley" [1] (Roud No. 2994) was written by Robert Dwyer Joyce [2] (1836–1883), and has been set to various airs. It is a song of a rebel of 1798 as he contemplates joining the rising and leaving his loved ones. The first stanza goes:
I sat within a valley green,
I sat there with my true love,
My sad heart strove the two between,
The old love and the new love, -
The old for her, the new that made
Me think of Ireland dearly,
While soft the wind blew down the glade
And shook the golden barley.
See "Wind that Shakes the Barley (2) (The)" for a different air for the same song.