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HE LEFT THE POOR WIDOWS A-WEEPING. Irish, Air (3/4 time). F Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "A song of the war time" (Joyce).

Source for notated version: Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim, professional fiddler Hugh O'Beirne, 1846, via collector William Forde (Joyce).

Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 641, p. 325.

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