Annotation:Dear Black Maid (The)
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DEAR BLACK MAID, THE. Irish, Air (3/4 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The melody was first published by collector Edward Bunting in his A General Collection of the Ancient Irish Music (1796). Thomas Moore used the air as the vehicle for his song "How oft has the benshee cried," published in his Irish Melodies (1807).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Clinton (Gems of Ireland: 200 Airs), 1841; No. 71, p. 36.
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