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DEAR BLACK MAID, THE. Irish, Air (3/4 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Thomas Moore used the air as the vehicle for his song "How oft has the benshee cried," published in his Irish Melodies (1807).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Clinton (Gems of Ireland: 200 Airs), 1841; No. 71, p. 36.

Recorded sources:

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