Annotation:Fair Darling of My Heart
Tune properties and standard notation
FAIR DARLING OF MY HEART (Múirnín Geal Mo Chroidhe). Irish, Air (4/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. See also the variant in Darley & McCall's Feis Ceóil Collection (1914), as "Sea Song."
Source for notated version: Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim, professional fiddler Hugh O'Beirne, 1846, via Forde (Joyce).
Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 573, p. 302.
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