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Annotation:I must be married if this is the way

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I MUST BE MARRIED IF THIS IS THE WAY. Irish, Air (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB.

Source for notated version: "Mr. Francis Hogan of South Lodge, Brenormore, near Carrick on Suir, a good musician and a great enthusiast in Irish music and songs. He must have been then (1884) well over seventy years of age" (Joyce).

Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 266, p. 127.

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