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MY SORROW IS GREATER THAN I CAN TELL. AKA and see "There's an end to my sorrow." Irish, Slow Air (6/8 time). A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The melody, in a simpler version, is also the vehicle for the Scots song "There'll never be peace 'till Jamie comes hame."

Source for notated version: James Keane of Kilkee on the Atlantic coast of County Clare, in 1876 when he was in his 83rd year [Joyce].

Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 14, p. 10.

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