Annotation:Roy Neill
X:1 T:Roy Neill T:Dublin Bay [2] M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Air B:Howe – Musician’s Omnibus No. 3 (1865, p. 221) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Bb F|d2B FED|C2E G2 G/G/|F=EF G2F|D3z2F| d2B FED|C2E G2G/G/|Fed cGA|B3 z2d| d2d d2d|d2d d2d/d/|d2A B2c|d3 z2F| d2B/B/ FED|C2E G2G|Fed cGA|B3 B2||
ROY NEILL. AKA and see "Dublin Bay (2)." Song Air (6/8 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Words to the song about a doomed couple who are shipwrecked are printed in Patrick John Kenedy's Universal Irish Song Book (New York, 1863, p. 63), and begin:
They sailed away, in a gallant bark,
Roy Neill and his fair young bride:
He had ventured all in that bounding ark,
That danced o'er the silvery tide.
But his heart was young, and his spirit light
And he dashed the tear away,
As he watched the shore recede from sight,
Of his own Sweet Dublin Bay.