Ballindown Braes

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Theme code Index	3b3b1 7bL7bL1
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Composer/Core Source
Region	Ireland
Genre/Style	Irish
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	2 flats
Mode	Aeolian (minor)
Time signature	3/4
History	IRELAND(Ulster)
Structure	AB
Editor/Compiler	P.W. Joyce
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Old Irish Folk Music and Songs
Tune and/or Page number	No. 322, p. 150
Year of publication/Date of MS	1909
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BALLINDOWN BRAES. Irish, Air (3/4 time). Ireland, Ulster. G Minor. Standard tuning. AB. "I have known this air and part of the song from boyhood days, when I learned them from an Ulster girl. But Mr. McKenzie's setting is better than mine" (Joyce).

Being young like myself-O, he said he would be
Both father and mother and all things to me;
He would dress me in silks and in satins so fine,
And the bright gold and silver in my tartan should shine.
Cho: But false was his heart-O, and false were his ways;
He decoyed me far far from sweet Ballindown Braes.

Source for notated version: "Mr. J. McKenzie of Newtownards, a great lover of Irish Music and of the corresponding folk songs, sent me the (air) about 30 years ago" (i.e. 1875).

Printed source: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 322, pg. 150.

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