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KILLDROUGHALT FAIR. Irish, Air (whole time). D Minor. Standard tuning (fidle). AB. Thomas Moore's (1779-1852) song "O Arranmore, Loved Arranmore," from his Irish Melodies (1808), was set to this air. Moore's song begins:

Oh! Arranmore, loved Arranmore,
How oft I dream of thee,
And of those days when, by thy shore,
I wander'd young and free.
Full many a path I've tried, since then,
Through pleasure's flowery maze,
But ne'er could find the bliss again
I felt in those sweet days.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: P.M. Haverty (One Hundred Irish Airs vol. 3), 1859; 249, p. 221.

Recorded sources:

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