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WHEN FIRST I CAME TO THE COUNTY LIMERICK. Irish, Air (3/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "I have known both words and air of this song from my earliest days. The words were often printed on ballad sheets, of which I have some copies: but they have never been published till now. The air is a setting of 'Youghal Harbour'" (Joyce).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 422, pp. 233-234.

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