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NOTHING IN LIFE. AKA - "Nothing in Life can Sadden Us." Irish, Air (6/8 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The melody appears in The Gentlemen's Amusement Book 4 (1817, p. 9), published in New York by W. Dubois. A coded version was entered into the 1817 music manuscript collection of flute player Daniel Henry Huntington, of Onondaga, New York.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Hughes (Gems from the Emerald Isles), London, 1867; No. 66, pp. 15-16.

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