Annotation:'Twas in the end of King James's Street

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'TWAS IN THE END OF KING JAMES’S STREET. Irish, Air (4/4 time). D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. "This air has clung to my memory from the dim days of my childhood. I remember four lines of the song; from which it appears that it belongs to Dublin, and commemorates some forgotten Dublin tragedy" (Joyce).

'Twas in the end of King Jame’s Street
Young Square (sic) Brown and Miss King did meet.


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Printed sources : - Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 48, pp. 26-27.






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