Annotation:On the Lake of Killarney
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ON THE LAKE OF KILLARNEY. Irish, Air (6/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABCA. The song "On the Lake of Killarney" was printed in The Vocal Magazine, vol. III (Edinburgh, 1799, Song XII, p. 29) and begins:
On the lake of Killarney I first saw the lad
Who with song and bagpipe could make my hear glad,
On the lake of Killarney I first saw the lad,
Who with song and with bagpipe could make my heart glad.
And his
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: O'Farrell (Pocket Companion, vol. 1), c. 1805; pp. 36-37.
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