Annotation:Gage Fane

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GAGE FANE. Irish, Air (3/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Thomas Moore set his song "The origin of the hart" to this air. Francis O'Neill (Irish Folk Music, 1910) explains that the title is a phoentic rendering of the Irish "Gaedhana Fiadhaine (An)" or "Wild Geese (The)."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Clinton (Gems of Ireland:200 Airs), 1841; No. 80, p. 40.

Recorded sources:




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