Annotation:Meeting of the Waters (1) (The)
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MEETING OF THE WATERS [1], THE (Ceann Deiginse). AKA and see "Todlin' Hame," "Toddlin' Hame," "Gage Fane", "Geadna Fiadaine (Na)," "Wild Geese (1) (The)," "Armstrong's Farewell," "Old Head of Denis (The)," "My Name is Dick Kelly," "Bacac Buide (An)," "Origin of the Harp (The)," "Old Ireland Rejoice." Irish, Air (6/8 time). A Major (Roche): G Major (Howe, O'Farrell). Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (Howe, O'Farrell): AB (Roche). "Meeting of the Waters" is the name of a song by Sir Thomas Moore that begins:
There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet
As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet;
Oh! the last rays of feeling and life must depart,
Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart.
The title appears in a list of tunes in his repertoire brought by Philip Goodman, the last professional and traditional piper in Farney, Louth, to the Feis Ceoil in Belfast in 1898 (Breathnach, 1997).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Howe (1000 Jigs and Reels), c. 1867; p. 114. O'Farrell (Pocket Companion, vol. III), c. 1808; p. 38. Roche (Collection of Traditional Irish Music, vol. 3), 1927; No. 31, p. 9.
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