Annotation:Young Man’s Lamentation (The)

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YOUNG MAN'S LAMENTATION, THE. Irish, Slow Air (3/4 time). D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB.

Source for notated version: "Copied from a MS. book lent me by Surgeon Major General King of Dublin (about 1885), who copied them 40 years previously from an old MS. book in Cork" (Joyce).

Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 362, p. 167.

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