Annotation:Sweet Kathleen Machree
X:1 T:Sweet Kathleen Machree M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Air Q:"With spirit" S:O’Neill – Music of Ireland (1903), No. 558 Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:C G|c>dc cec|cAc cGc|cEc cde|f>dd d2f| e>dc cec|cAc cGc|cEc ceg|fdB c2f| ece egf|ece ege|f>dd d2e|f>dd d2f|ege fdf| edc cAG|GEG c2d|ece g2f|e>cc c2d|e>cc c2||
SWEET KATHLEEN MACHREE (Caitilin Dileas Mo Croide). Irish, Air (6/8 time). B Flat Major (Joyce): C Major (Crosby, O'Neill). Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (Crosby, O'Neill): AB (Joyce). The song "Sweet Kathleen Machree" was published by B. Crosby in his Irish Musical Repository (1808, 245). The words begin:
Ye winds and ye waves, bear my sorrows away,
And ye echoes go babble, for nought I can say;
O bear to the ear of sweet Kathlane Machree,
That my thoughts are on her, tho' she thinks not of me.
Och why will you wander like goose leaving gander,
Sweet Kathlane Macree, sweet Kathlane Machree?
Fly all the world over, you'll ne'er find a lover
So constant as me, so constant as me,
Sweet Kathlane Macree, sweet Kathlane Macree.
O'Neill's melody is identical to that printed by Crosby. The air appears as "Paddy Frolic" in Alexander Kinloch's One Hundred Airs (London, c. 1815).
