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YOU NEVER SAW ROSEY (Ni faiceas Roisin a riam). Irish, Slow Air (3/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Paul de Grae finds O'Neill's air to be a verson of collector George Petrie's "B'fhuiris Domh Aithne Nach Bhfaca Tú Róise Riamh/'Tis easily known that you never saw Rosy,"

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 246, p. 42. Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 1200, p. 303.

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