Annotation:I'm Sadly Thinking
Tune properties and standard notation
I'M SADLY THINKING (Ta Me ag Smuaireanac). AKA and see "Deserter (The)." Irish, Air (3/4 time, "slow and plaintive"). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The air was employed for John Philpott Curran's song "The Deserter."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 292, p. 51.
Recorded sources: