Annotation:Maid of Castle Creagh (The)

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MAID OF CASTLE CREAGH, THE. Irish, Air. E Flat Major/Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The lyric, printed in The Dublin Magazine (December, 1842) begins:

Three times the flow'rs have faded since I left my native home,
Through hopeless love enlisting, in foreign lads to roam;
But wheresoever I wander'd, near or far away,
No maiden fair could e'er compare with the Maid of Castle Craigh.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: The Dublin Magazine, December, 1942; No. 42. Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 709, p. 178.

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