Annotation:Summer is Come (The)
X:1 T:Summer is come and the grass is green, The M:3/4 L:1/8 B:P.W. Joyce - Ancient Irish Music (1873, No. 18 pp. 19-20) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:F (3A/=B/c/ d/>c/A/G/|A>G E/D/E DD|D3 D/E/ FG|A2 fe [F/d/]>c/(3A/B/c/| [F3d3] D/E/ FG|[F2A2][Ff]e [F/d/]>c/(3A/B/c/|[F3d3] f/e/ [F/d/]c/A/G/|A>G [^C/E/]D/E DD|D3||
SUMMER IS COME, THE. AKA - "Summer is come and the grass is green (The)." Irish, Air (3/4 time). F Major (Joyce): D Major (O'Neill). Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. O'Neill re-barred Joyce's tune and set it in a different key, but it is the same. The first stanza of the words Joyce prints goes:
The summer is come and the grass is green,
The leaves are budding on ev'ry tree,
The ships are sailing upon the sea,
And I'll soon find tidings of gramachree.
