Annotation:Under the Willows She Was Sleeping

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UNDER THE WILLOWS SHE WAS SLEEPING. AKA and see “Under the Willow Tree Night and Day.” Irish, Waltz or Slow Air. The melody appears in the Alex Sutherland manuscript of County Meath/Leitrim, and in Walton’s Tutor and Selection of Irish Airs for the Bagpipes (Palmer, 1967) under the alternate title. Harding’s Dublin Songster, vol. 1, reprints a 19th century ballad sheet giving lyrics for a song called “Under the Willows She Was Sleeping.”

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Recorded sources: Drumlin Records, Brian McNamara – “A Piper’s Dream.”

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