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NOTHING CAN SADDEN US (Ni Deanac Aoinnid Bronac Sinn). AKA - "Nothing in Life Can Sadden Us." Irish, Jig. A Major (O'Neill): G Major (Goodman). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (O'Neill): AABA (Goodman): AABB' (Kerr). The title is the name of a song set to the tune in 1802 by Sir Thomas Moore:

Oh! Nothing in life can sadden us
While we have wine and good humour in store;
With this, and a little of love to madden us,
Show me the fool that can labour for more!
Come then, bid Ganymede full every bowl for you,
Fill them up brimmers, and drink as I call;
I'm going to toast every nymph of my soul for you,
Ay, on my soul, I'm in love with them all!

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 3), c. 1880's; No. 220, p. 25. O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 20. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 747, p. 139. Shields/Goodman (Tunes of the Munster Pipers), 1998; No. 168, p. 71 (appears as "Nothing in Life Can Sadden Us").

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