Annotation:Goat's Song (The)
Tune properties and standard notation
GOAT'S SONG, THE (An Cronan Gabhair). Irish, Air (6/8 time). F Major/D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. The tune features ornaments that sound like a goat's bleating. O'Neill says an almost identical version of the melody can be found in Logan's Scottish Gael under the title "Cronan Gabhair."
Source for notated version: "Mr. Quinn, a famous Irish piper of Chicago (and) his friend Segt. James Early" [O'Neill].
Printed sources: O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 480, p. 84. O'Neill (1913), p. 124.
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