Annotation:Spailpín Rúin
X:1 T:Spailpín! rúin! M:3/4 L:1/8 R:Air N:The tune can be played with all 'f' sharp notes. B:Stanford/Petrie (1905, No. 1379, p. 345) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:C AB|c2 ce dc|B3 AGA|B2g2B2|A4 GE|B3 AGB| A4 BE|E6|E4:|GA| B2d2 e^f|g4 fg|a2 g2 f^d| e4 =dB/A/|B2d2 e^f|g2e2 f^d|e4 =dB/A/|B2d2 e^f| g2e2 f^d|!fermata!e2 fe/f/!fermata!g/ AB|c2 ce dc|B3 AGA| B2g2B2|A4 GE|c2 BA GB|A4 GE|E6-|E4||
SPAILPÍN RÚIN (Migrant Farmworker, My Love). AKA – “A Spailpín, A Rúin.” AKA and see "Tumbling down Teady's Acre," "Stranger (The)," "Along the Mourne Shore," "Reading made Easy (1) (The)." Irish, Air (3/4 time). D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The melody, which appears in the Stanford-Petrie collection (No. 1379), is a variant (or, as Cowdery {1990} says, an "outlining correspondent") of "The Blackbird," notwithstanding sean nos singer Joe Heaney's emphatic assertion that this was the older of the the two tunes.
