Annotation:Past One O'Clock

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PAST ONE O'CLOCK. AKA and see “Cha mi ma chattle,” “Táim i mo Chodladh,” "I am asleep and don't waken me (2)." Thamma Hulla. Irish, Air (3/4 time). A Major (): G Major (Moffat, Thumoth, Wright). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Moffat, Wright), AABBCCDD. O’Farrell marks the tune “slow” and says the tune is Irish. The air first appears in Musick for Allan Ramsay’s Collection of Scots Songs, Book III (c. 1725) as “Cha mi ma chattle.” It was printed in Coffey’s Dublin-staged ballad opera The Beggar’s Wedding (1729, Act ii, Air x), and in the ballad-opera Flora (1732) as “Past one o’clock, on a cold and frosty morning,” and in Burk Thumoth’s 1742 collection (pp. 30-31) as “Past One O’Clock.” Sometimes the song burden is in Irish.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: O’Farrell (Pocket Companion, vol. 1), c. 1805; pp. 68-69. Moffat (Minstrelsy in Ireland), 1897; Appendix, p. 341. Thumoth (Twelve Scotch and Twelve Irish Airs with Variations Set for the German Flute Violin or Harpsichord), London, 1748; No. 15, pp. 30-31. Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances, 1740; p. 48.

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